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What is the English name of Constellation 88? Please help me find it.

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In ancient times, in order to facilitate navigation and observe astronomical phenomena, people connected the scattered stars in the sky through imagination. Half of them were named in ancient times, and their naming methods include myths and epics of Mesopotamia, Babylon, Egypt and Greece.

The other half (mostly in the night sky in the southern hemisphere) was named only in modern times, and is often named after navigation instruments.

1928, in order to unify the complicated constellation division, the International Astronomical Union divided the sky into 88 constellations with precise boundaries, so that every star in the sky belongs to a specific constellation.

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In ancient times, in order to facilitate navigation and observe astronomical phenomena, people connected the scattered stars in the sky through imagination. Half of them were named in ancient times, and their naming methods include myths and epics of Mesopotamia, Babylon, Egypt and Greece.

The other half (mostly in the night sky in the southern hemisphere) was named only in modern times, and is often named after navigation instruments.

In ancient times, because of different regions, the way to see the starry sky was different! Now the world has unified the sky into 88 regions and 88 constellations according to the constellation map.

The "constellation" we usually say refers to the "sun constellation"; That is, people on the earth are the center, and at the same time we can see which constellation the sun is in orbit (Greek zodiac: the circle made by animals, also known as the "zodiac"), so we can say what constellation that person is.

Baidu encyclopedia -88 constellation