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n. (plural of constellation English)
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Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International. It is edited by Andrew Arato, Amy Allen, and Andreas Kalyvas. Seyla Benhabib is a co-founding former editor and Nancy Fraser a former co-editor.
Constellations (2005) is a science fiction anthology of all-new short stories edited by Peter Crowther, the fourth in his themed science fiction anthology series for DAW Books. The stories are all intended to be inspired by the theme of constellations. The book was published in 2005. The title page carries a subtitle, "The Best of New British SF".
The book includes a three-page introduction by Crowther entitled, "Britain Swings!", fifteen short stories, and a six-page set of author biographies at the end.
The stories are as follows:
- Eric Brown: "A Heritage of Stars"
- Paul McAuley: "Rats of the System"
- Brian W. Aldiss: "Ten Billion Of Them"
- Tony Ballantyne: "Star!"
- Stephen Baxter: "Lakes of Light"
- Roger Levy: "No Cure For Love"
- Ian Watson: "The Navigator's Children"
- Keith Brooke: "A Different Sky"
- Gwyneth Jones: "The Fulcrum"
- James Lovegrove: "The Meteor Party"
- Ian McDonald: "Written In the Stars"
- Adam Roberts: "The Order of Things"
- Justina Robson: "The Little Bear"
- Colin Greenland: "Kings"
- Alastair Reynolds: "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
Constellations is the fourth album by trumpeter Dave Douglas and the second to feature his Tiny Bell Trio. It was released on the Swiss Hat Hut label in 1995 and features performances by Douglas, Brad Schoeppach and Jim Black.
Constellations is the third studio album by August Burns Red.
"Constellations" is the debut single from alternative band Darwin Deez. It was released in early December 2009 as a digital download and also features on the self-titled debut album: " Darwin Deez". The single was used at the beginning of 90210's second season finale: Confessions. The single was selected to be the Weekend Anthem by BBC Radio 1 DJ, Reggie Yates which ran from 23–24 October 2010.
Constellations is a series of 23 small paintings on paper, initiated by Joan Miró in 1939 in Varengeville-sur-Mer and completed in 1941 between Mallorca and Mont-roig del Camp. The Fundació Joan Miró preserves a work of this series and The Morning Star, one of the most important pieces of the series. The painter gave to his wife and she later donated to the Foundation.
Constellations is a two-hander play by the English playwright Nick Payne.
Constellations: Stories of the Future (1980) is a science fiction anthology of short stories edited by Malcolm Edwards and published by Gollancz.
Usage examples of "constellations".
Both scales are marked off in degrees and this dial could show the annual motion of the sun in the zodiac and the main risings and settings of bright stars and constellations throughout the year.
The fifty lines fanning out at the bottom show the destinations of the spaceships and, in some cases, the star constellations as they would appear from Perseus.
The groups of dots at the end of some of the lines represent the various star constellations of their destinations as they would be seen from Gamma Persei.
Polynesians knew the constellations of the stars and their positions in relation to certain islands.
At certain times of the year, the constellations depicted would nearly fit some of those seen in the skies.
A splendid example of a true star-swarm is furnished by Chi Persei, in that part of the Milky Way which runs between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia.
The result of the studies devoted to this subject is to show that we are traveling at a speed of twelve to fifteen miles per second in a northerly direction, toward the border of the constellations Hercules and Lyra.
In the forms of the constellations, the most beautiful, and, in imaginative quality, the finest, mythology that the world has ever known has been perpetuated.
To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.
Here the temples all evidently refer to a cult based upon the constellations as symbols.
Thus the imagination of ancient America sought in the constellations symbols of the unchanging gods.
Professor Young has significantly remarked that a great number of the constellations are connected in some way or other with the Argonautic Expedition -- that strangely fascinating legend of earliest Greek story which has never lost its charm for mankind.
The constellations are more or less familiar to everybody, so that impending changes of their forms must at once strike the eye and the imagination, and make clearer the significance of the movements of the stars.
The blaze of the constellations overhead was astonishingly brilliant, yet amid all their magnificence my attention was immediately drawn to a great tapering light that sprang from the place on the horizon where the sun would rise later, and that seemed to be blown out over the stars like a long, luminous veil.
Two golden moons climbed into the heavens, and hosts of countless stars broke forth in a glory of unfamiliar constellations that rivaled the soft, throbbing lights of the city.