How did constellations get their names?

Answer 1

Anyone of the 88 groupings of stars that appear in the celestial sphere & which they take his name from religious or mithologicals figures, animals or objects. This term also talks about delimited areas of the celestial sphere that understand the star groups with an certain name.

The Greeks recognized & named forty-eight constellations. Many of these constellations were also recognized by the Arabs, Egyptians, & the Babylonian. In 1928, the International Astronomy Union fixed the boundaries of the eighty-eight constellations in the sky. Twelve constellations lie on the ecliptic & are known as "the Zodiacs." Part of Ophiuchus lies on the ecliptic, so that makes thirteen ecliptic constellations. Twenty-nine constellations are between the ecliptic & theNorth Celestial Pole plus the remainder of Ophiuchus. Forty-seven constellations lie between the ecliptic zone & the South Celestial Pole.

The names of the constellations are given in Latin, because Latin was once the language of learning. The names used by the Greeks, Egyptians, & other people were translated into Latin. For convenience, the ancients named the constellations after a certain figure that it seemed to form in the sky. They refer to mythological or legendary men, women, & animals.

Answer 2

There are lots of constellations named after animals: Apus the Bee, Aquila the Eagle, Aries the Ram, Camelopardalis the Giraffe, Cancer the Crab, Canes Venatici the Hunting Dogs, Canis Major the Big Dog, Canis Minor the Small Dog, Capricornus the Goat, Cetus the Whale, Columba the Dove, Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan, Delphinus the Dolphin, Dprado the Goldfish, Equuleus the Little Horse, Grus the Crane, Hydra the Sea Snake, Hydrus the Water Snake, Lacerta the Lizard, Leo the Lion, Lepus the Hare, Lupus the Wold, Lynx the Lynx, Pavo the Peacock, Pisces the Fish, Piscis Austrinus the Southern Fish, Scorpius the Scorpion, Serpens the Serpent, Taurus the Bull, Tucana the Toucan, Ursa Major the Big Bear, Ursa Minor the Little Bear, Volans the Flying Fsh and Vulpecula the Worlf.

Also from mythology, Centaurus the Centaur, Draco the Drago, Monoceros the Unicorn, Pegasus the Winged Horse, and Phoenix the Phoenix.

Answer 3

Constellations were originally named by ancient farmers. Ancient astronomy is closely linked to ancient agriculture. These ancient civilizations noticed that certain groupings of stars resembled familiar objects or characters and would come and go with the seasons. Naming the different groupings of stars and watching their places in the sky helped early civilizations plant and harvest their crops with the changing seasons. The ancient constellations that we still have records of were named by the Greeks. Their etymology is mostly Latin and comes from Greek mythology and the signs of the zodiac.

Answer 4

The constellations got their names from ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians.