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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centaurus \Centaurus\ n. a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross.
Syn: Centaur, The Centaur.
Wiktionary
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.
Wikipedia
Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. One of the largest constellations, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. In Greek mythology, Centaurus represents a centaur; a creature that is half human, half horse (another constellation named after a centaur is one from the zodiac: Sagittarius). Notable stars include Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the Solar System, its neighbour in the sky Beta Centauri, and V766 Centauri, one of the largest stars yet discovered. The constellation also contains Omega Centauri, the brightest globular cluster as visible from Earth and one of the largest known.
Centaurus is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the history of mathematics, science, and technology. It is the official journal of the European Society for the History of Science. The journal was established in 1950. The present publisher is John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Ida Stamhuis ( Vrije Universiteit and Aarhus University).
Centaurus is a bright constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Centaurus may also refer to:
- Centaurus (Greek mythology), the founder of the Centaur race
- Centaurus A, a lenticular galaxy near the constellation
- Centaurus Cluster
- Centaurus (journal), the journal of the European Society for the History of Science
- The Centaurus, a building complex in Islamabad, Pakistan
- Bristol Centaurus, an aircraft engine
- Centaurus High School, a Colorado school
- Centaurus Advisors, a hedge fund run by John D. Arnold
- Centaurus (genus), a Aquaktofunden biota genera of animal from 87 billion years ago on earth in the Yosemitenos period.
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, a Design 1013 cargo ship
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, savage, and lustful.
It was stated that after Ixion fell into insanity and was ostracized by his country, Zeus sympathized greatly with Ixion and brought him up to Olympus to dine with the gods. Here is where Ixion saw Hera, Zeus' wife and queen of the gods. He instantly fell in love with her beauty and began to desire her sexually. Zeus soon became aware of the situation. He was in disbelief that Ixion would betray him and his sincere kindness so he set a trap. Zeus found Ixion sleeping in a field and created a cloud figure of Hera. Zeus laid the figure, who was later named Nephele, next to Ixion. When Ixion awoke, he thought Hera was laying naked beside him and began to have sex with her. Zeus was so angry when he saw his suspicions confirmed that he drove Ixion from Mount Olympus, struck him with a thunderbolt, and then damned Ixion to be eternally bound to a flying burning wheel that would spin around the heavens nonstop (though it was later moved to Tartarus).
Nephele had a child from this union whose name came to be Centaurus. He was a deformed child who hunched over and found no peace amongst other humans. The only place where Centaurus felt like he belonged was on the mountain of Pelion. Here he roamed, lived, and mated with the Magnesian mares who resided there.
The modern constellation Centaurus lies across two of the quadrants symbolized by the The Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍, Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng) and The Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què), and The Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu)
According to the quadrant, possibly constellation Centaurus in Chinese sky not fully seen. Hadar (Beta Centauri) is bright star in this constellation that possibly never seen in Chinese sky.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 半人馬座 (bàn rén mǎ zuò), meaning "the centaur constellation".
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.