Very beautiful and spectacular constellation of Taurusknown to people a very long time, many centuries before the new era. He was found in the night sky by scholars in Ancient Egypt and Babylon, associating it with the head of a bull. However, experts believe that the very first to describe it only astronomer and mathematician Evdoks Cnidsky, who lived in ancient Greece. It enters the zodiac belt and strikes with its beauty. For astronomers, the constellation of Taurus is an extremely curious phenomenon, containing a lot of interesting things.
Название созвездия пришло к нам не откуда-нибудь, but from ancient Greece. One of the most interesting of her myths is that King Agenor once ruled in Phenicia, who had three sons and a daughter, Europe. She was considered the most beautiful girl on the whole Earth and was inferior only to the goddesses. Once the thunderbolt Zeus noticed the beautiful woman. Turning white snow bull, he stole a lovely Europe and brought her to the island of Crete. The abducted princess eventually became the beloved of the deity and even gave him sons, one of which was the legendary King Minos. Myth says that beautiful Europe was very kind, always helped people and loved them. In gratitude, subjects named her name one part of the world.
One of the most noteworthy objectsare clusters of stars, called the Hyades and Pleiades. The Pleiades, which are a scattered cluster, are sometimes called also the seven sisters, because even ordinary people in a silvery cloud can clearly see six or even seven stars, shining in the form of a small bucket. The total number of stars in the Pleiades is about five hundred, and they are all blue and shrouded in a blue nebula of dust and gas.
As for the Hyades, this is an absent meetingstars is even closer to the Earth, only some one hundred and thirty light-years, and consists of 132 stars. I must say that this is the closest cluster to the Sun. Well, on the easternmost edge of the cluster, the reddish star in the constellation of Taurus Aldebaran or, as it is called, the "eye's eye", shines, sometimes changing its brilliance.
This bright star has long attractedthe eyes of people. Another very interesting object, which is famous for the constellation of Taurus, is the so-called Crab Nebula. The name is due to the fact that the galactic nebula really resembles the shell of a crab. This is the track after the supernova explosion, which took place as far back as the 11th century. It should be said that there are sources in the sources of this event: Japanese and Chinese astronomers, like their European counterparts, observed and described the outbreak of an unusually bright star. This nebula is located directly on the Milky Way, and from time to time emits electromagnetic pulses with its pulsar.
Find on the night sky constellation Taurus veryeasy, because for this there are excellent guidelines: the gleaming Pleiades bucket and the reddish-orange Aldebaran. A little to the east of this star glows the constellation of Gemini, and on the south side of the beautiful Orion glimmers. Our shone May 11 comes to the constellation of Taurus, then the photos are very interesting. Well, to observe this object is best in the late autumn - in November and in December.
