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SAGITTARIUS (" the archer ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 1003 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAGITTARIUS (" the See also:archer ") , in See also:astronomy, the 9th sign of the See also:zodiac (q.v.) denoted by the See also:symbol,V, an arrow or dart. It is also a See also:constellation, mentioned by See also:Eudoxus (4th See also:century B.C.) and See also:Aratus (3rd century B.e.), and catalogued by See also:Ptolemy, 31 stars, Tycho See also:Brahe 14 and See also:Hevelius 22. The Greeks represented this constellation as a centaur in the See also:act of See also:shooting an arrow, and professed it to be Crotus, son of Eupheme, the See also:nurse of the See also:Muses. Several See also:short See also:period variables occur in the constellation, e.g. X3 Sagittarii, Wyl Sagittarii and Y Sagittarii, having periods of 7.01, 7.59, 5.77 days respectively. Nova Sagittarii is a " new " See also:star, which was discovered by Mrs See also:Fleming in 1899; the nebula M. 17 Sagittarii is an omega or See also:horse-See also:shoe nebula, while the nebula and cluster M. 8 Sagittarii is a splendid irregular nebula associated with a See also:great number of faint stars.

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