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Cygnus The Swan Research Paper

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My favorite constellation is Cygnus the Swan mostly because of one of the stories that corresponds to it. Cygnus in Latin literally mean “swan!” It is the 16th largest constellation, and it consists of ten stars.The two most notable stars in this constellation are Deneb and Albireo at the tail and head of the constellation. Deneb, a blue-white supergiant at the tail, is the brightest star in Cygnus and the 19th brightest star in the sky! It makes up the Summer Triangle along with Vega and Altair,and is estimated to be 60,000 times brighter than our sun! The interesting thing about Albireo, the star at the head of Cygnus, is the fact that it is not one star but two! As you can see in the picture above and to the far right, one is a light blue …show more content…

On one day, they decided to have a race in their chariots around the sun and back to Earth. So, they took off through the sky, each wanting to win more than the other. They knew that the sun might be the turning point. Whoever could cut closest to the sun wouldn’t have to race as far. However, they weren’t destined to finish the race. In their attempt to cut the closest and go the fastest, their chariots melted because of the heat. They fell all the way back to Earth. When Cygnus regained his consciousness, he began looking for his friend. After hours of hard searching and desperate worrying, he found Phaeton under the roots of a tree in the Eridanus River. Cygnus tried to retrieve his friend to give him a proper burial allowing him to pass peacefully into the afterlife, but he couldn’t reach him no matter how deep he dived or how hard he tried. Almost completely overcome with grief, Cygnus prayed to the great god Zeus to show him a way to retrieve his friend. So Zeus made a deal with Cygnus. Since a swan could easily reach Phaeton, Zeus told Cygnus that he could turn him into a swan, but Cygnus would have to stay a swan for life, and live the life span of a swan. (The average lifespan of a swan is about 7 years in the wild.) Despite the shortened life and different body, Cygnus didn’t hesitate to accept, and he gave Phaeton a proper burial. Later, when Cygnus died long before …show more content…

Rather, I should say the animals who weren’t directly related on the food chain got along well. :) However, the one exception was the squirrel family. Note that this was the nobody's fault, as the squirrels loved to joke and jump around while the other animals strongly disapproved. Then, one night while she was out hunting, an owl received word of a plan to flood their valley, the only place all of the animals had ever called home, in two days time. Being the sensible owl she was, she started to spread the word and a plan to escape. By the next day, everyone knew except the squirrels who had made the rest so mad the day before, no one wanted to talk to them. So, they set out into the unknown away from the shark and flood that were going to take over in two days. The squirrels were left sleeping off all the sweet acorns they ate the other

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