No one is credited with the discovery of the Cancer constellation. It has always been visible in the night sky. The Greek astronomer Ptolemy is the person who cataloged it during the 2nd century.
The constellation Cancer has been known since ancient times and was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. It is one of the 12 constellations of the zodiac, representing a crab.
The constellation Cancer has been known since ancient times, with its first recorded observations dating back to the Babylonians in the 2nd millennium BCE. Its name is derived from the Latin word for crab and it is one of the 12 zodiac constellations.
The constellation closest to Leo is Cancer. Cancer is located to the west of Leo in the night sky.
If you mean the constellation cancer, there is no such thing as a "distance to a constellation". It just doesn't make sense. A constellation is basically a general direction in space.
Cancer is usually represented as a crab in the constellation. The arrangement of stars form a pattern that resembles a crab, fitting the name of the constellation.
The constellation Cancer has been known since ancient times and was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. It is one of the 12 constellations of the zodiac, representing a crab.
The constellation Cancer has been known since ancient times, with its first recorded observations dating back to the Babylonians in the 2nd millennium BCE. Its name is derived from the Latin word for crab and it is one of the 12 zodiac constellations.
The constellation closest to Leo is Cancer. Cancer is located to the west of Leo in the night sky.
it is a star of a crab that reprsents cancer
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If you mean the constellation cancer, there is no such thing as a "distance to a constellation". It just doesn't make sense. A constellation is basically a general direction in space.
Aside from Cancer being the dimmest zodiacal constellation, the planet Mars is in Cancer (as of 4/21/10)
5 stars are there in cancer
Cancer.
"The Crab"
It is Cancer.
You can find a list of them in the Wikipedia article "Cancer (constellation)", under the section "main stars".