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A conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
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centaurus
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n. (context constellation English) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.
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In Greek mythology , Centaurus is the father of the race of mythological beasts known as the centaurs or Ixionidae. The centaurs are half-man, half horse; having the torso of a man extending where the neck of a horse should be. They were said to be wild, ...
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Centaurus \Centaurus\ n. a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross. Syn: Centaur, The Centaur.
Usage examples of centaurus.
In actual fact, just a bit less than that to provide a small net motion toward Alpha Centauri and to satisfy the requirements of orbital mechanics as we worked them out.
Then you noticed the tiny orange jewelAlpha Centauri A's somewhat cooler companion about three billion miles awayoverhead, adding its own increment to the glorious daylight.
Hamid-Jones regretted his encouragement to Aziz as the two of them sat over a snack provided by a restored room service, and Aziz rambled on obnoxiously about their prospects on Alpha Centauri.
Hamid-Jones remembered that he had been born under Mars gravity and that despite the toughening stay at Alpha Centauri and the weeks aboard high-G blowtorches, he was laboring under a weight that was almost three times what was normal for him.
It was more than four light-years to Alpha Centauri, but fear made a long string.
She was taken to Alpha Centauri by her husband, an artisan, many years ago.
And when he finally disembarked at Alpha Centauri, he would be separated from everything and everyone he had ever known by a gulf of time.
A trip to Alpha Centauri would take five years of our lives instead of two.
The first load of colonies to Alpha Centauri took ninety years to reach there, and when they landed, they found the children of the second colony ship waiting there to greet them.
Assassin on this ship, he probably has business on Alpha Centauri like everybody else.
Alpha Centauri was still a long way off, and any errors would be multiplied at the destination.
Zarrab, who had been going to join his married daughter on Alpha Centauri and who had a pet bird named Sindbad.
I hear they go for ten times their Solar system value on the Alpha Centauri black market.
Truly the Sultan of Alpha Centauri must be a monarch of overweening ambition, he thought.
The golden dome, of course, represents our main sun, Alpha Centauri Alif.