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Constellation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (777 words)
Twelve of the constellations in the southern celestial hemisphere were not observable by the Greeks, and were created by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the sixteenth century and first cataloged by Johann Bayer.
Chinese constellations are different from the western constellations, due to the independent development of ancient Chinese astronomy.
All modern constellation names are Latin proper names or words, and some stars are named using the genitive of the constellation in which they are found.
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