He was sent to kill a monster called Chimaera who breathed fire and was ruining the land. Flying on Pegasus, the hero managed to kill the monster - and followed his heroics up with many other jobs for the king of the land. But the fame and success of Bellerophon went to his head and he believed he should now be one of the gods. So, Bellerophon got onto Pegasus and attempted to fly to Mount Olympus and join the other gods. But he fell off on the way landing back on Earth. Later, Pegasus did make it to Olympus with the gods and Zeus used the white horse to carry his thunder and lightning.
Zeus then rewarded the work of Pegasus by putting him into the sky as the Pegasus star constellation. Constellations are formed by joining stars together with imaginary lines. You may have done a similar exercise as a child with a join-the-dots book. Once these lines have been joined in a specific way, we have a shape which is meant to represent the constellation.
Most constellations do not look exactly like their imagery, but with some imagination and wonder, we can make out what our ancient ancestors peered at in the sky.
The Pegasus constellation is naturally said to look like Pegasus, the white horse with wings. The wings are present in the constellation - but the back legs are not.
Have you ever heard of an asterism? This is a group of bright stars that form a shape in the sky. Most people know asterisms more than they know constellations because they are easy to remember and make out — or point out to friends. It is a square that depicts the body of the horse using bright stars. This makes it the seventh largest constellation in the night sky.
It is bordered by Andromeda to the north and east, Lacerta to the north, Cygnus to the northwest, Vulpecula, Delphinus and Equuleus to the west, Aquarius to the south and Pisces to the south and east.
Pegasus is one of the 48 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. It represents the famous winged horse in Greek mythology. Curiously, the constellation Pegasus only represents the top half of the horse. In some depictions, the horse is shown rising out of the water. Pegasus was a white winged horse born from the blood of the gorgon Medusa after she was beheaded by Perseus.
He served the god Zeus as the carrier of his lightning bolts. Zeus eventually placed the horse among the stars as a constellation. Pegasus is easily recognizable by the four stars that make a large square shape. Known as the Great Square of Pegasus, it represents the body of the horse.
The brightest star in the constellation is Epsilon Pegasi, which forms the nose, according to Jim Kaler , an astronomer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. Another star in this constellation, 51 Pegasi b, is the first sun-like star known to have a planet orbiting around it. The planet is roughly 50 light-years away from Earth and is classified as a "hot Jupiter" — a planet that is Jupiter-size and orbits close to its parent star.
The visible light spectrum of 51 Pegasi b's atmosphere was observed in In that same year, the IAU announced that it would also call 51 Pegasi b by the name Dimidium , following a public vote. Pegasus contains a Messier object , named M15, which is a cluster of stars that are about 34, light-years from Earth. M15 is one of the most densely packed clusters in the Milky Way galaxy.
NGC is a spiral galaxy within Pegasus that is between 36 million to 46 million light-years from Earth. In , astronomers spotted a supernova in this galaxy that released more hydrogen and heavier elements than expected , shortly before it exploded. Michael J.
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