Starry, Starry Night

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Starry, Starry Night
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The Galaxy
A constellation is a group of stars that form
pictures in the sky such as animals and people.
Most constellations come with their own stories.
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Big Dipper
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The Great Bear

• The two stars on the end of the handle of the big
  dipper are robins. Sparrow and Crow are their
  names. The two birds were hungry and didn't save
  any food for the winter. Then Crow said to
  Sparrow, "we should go into a bear cave and kill
  a bear while it is hibernating." So Sparrow and
  Crow went off to find a bear. They found a bear
  cave and saw the bear Ursa Major. When they were
  about to kill it the bear woke up. Ursa Major was
  scared. Sparrow and Crow chased the bear for one
  year until they were tired of running. Then Crow
  threw an arrow and killed the bear. Blood
  splattered all over the bird's bodies and made
  their chests red. That is the myth of why robins
  have red chests.r in the sky, think of the story
  of Sparrow, Crow, and Ursa Major.
• So the next time you see Ursa Major running
  through the sky, remember the story of Sparrow,
  Crow, and Ursa Major.

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Great Bear
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Orion The Hunter

• Orion- The Hunter
• Orion is the master of the winter skies. He lords
  over the heavens from late fall to early spring,
  with his hunting dog Sirius trailing at his feet.
  
• The mythic tales of Orion go as far back as the
  Hittites, who flourished from the Second
  Millenium BC to around 1200 BC.
• One story from this culture gives an interesting
  account of Orion's death. Here he is called
  Aqhat, and was a handsome and famous hunter. The
  Battle-Goddess Anat fell in love with Aqhat, but
  when he refused to lend her his bow, she sent
  another man to steal it. This chap bungled the
  job, and wound up killing Aqhat and dropping the
  bow into the sea. This is said to explain the
  astronomical fact that Orion and the Bow (an
  older version of the constellation) drops below
  the horizon for two months every spring.

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Orion The Hunter
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Now, its your turn..Create your own
constellation and write the myth
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Homework

• Count the stars in our Solar System!