The sun, the stars and the planets and the asterisms are all your form with all the living beings contained in them. |
In order to obtain more convenient intervals, the Egyptians subdivided each of their asterisms into three parts, or decans. |
Orion and the Great Bear are two of the most prominent asterisms visible from the northern hemisphere. |
Now by these canons god could just turn himself into a huge, gleaming deep-blue sphere, spangled with asterisms. |
We call these shapes asterisms, which form part of larger groups that we call constellations. |
Two of the most famous asterisms in astronomy, the Big and Little Dippers hover above the pine trees at Carranza Field in the New Jersey Wharton State Forest. |