The constellations got their names from a civillizations mythological stand point. Some examples. Aquarius Hercules Perseus Pegasus These are all Greek in origin, Aquarius was the water bearer to the gods, or Ganymede, Pegasus was the winged horse of Zeus, Hercules was a hero, and Perseus was a hero.
Our imagination! Every culture on Earth looked up at the vast expanse of the night sky and tried to make sense of what they saw. The way we all could feel a kinship with the night sky was to create patterns in the stars which made sense to what we experience in our own lives. So the ancient Chinese saw the patterns in the stars as a representation of their empire on Earth, complete with their emperor, his court and all the peoples of their land. The Greeks took their heroes, legends and tales and put those ideas in the stars we see above us every night. In 1930, the International Astronomical Union officially recognized 88 constellations in the sky. Most of those were passed down from Greeks and Romans. Many constellations only seen from the Southern Hemisphere which the Greeks did not know, were named by the European explorers who first charted the southern skies in the 16th and 17th century. Many of those constellations reflect what was important to their world at the time - Microscopium (a microscope), Antlia (an air pump), Telescopium (a telescope). But all through history we have looked up to the sky and made images in the stars. On the wall of a cave in Lascaux France, there is a painting of a bull using the stars we recognize as the constellation of Taurus the bull. This painting has been dated to 17,300 years ago! So, the answer is: From ourselves as long as we've looked to the skies.
The name comes form ancient times. In the past the stars SEEMED a lot brighter to our ancestors than they do to most of us today. This is because we live at a time when our own night time lights are so bright that they 'pollute' the light of the night sky.
Imagine you were an ancient an looked up at the sky at night to see a sky ablaze with twinkling stars, you would soon notice pasterns in the stars (rather like joining the dots in a children's puzzle) and the images you would form from these patterns would be those of the things you were familiar with - lions, scorpions, bulls, goats, rams, hunters, horses etc. You would also notice that over the year certain of the patterns would come and go in the sky and you would look for their coming and going for reassurance that all was as it should be.
Thus the ancients who named the constellations thought that the pattern formed by the stars in the area of the sky covered by 'Taurus' thought it resembled the head of a bull. (In Latin, the word "Taurus" means "bull") and that is how it got its name.
The constellation names come from the names of Greek and Roman names or myths. As simple as that.
Some stars got their name by ancient Greeks naming them after animals, gods, and regular objects.
Orion, Lupus, Serpens, Hercules, and Draco
The Seven Sisters are also known as the Pleiades. The constellation is Taurus (The Bull). The 'sisters' are located on the left shoulder of the bull.
Taurus and Cancer are the obvious two. Others are Auriga, Canis Minor, Lynx, Monoceros, and Orion.
A meteor shower gets its name from the constellation it appears to emanate from. The meteors of course do not originate in the constellation.
The celestial sphere is divided up into regions, each of which is a constellation with a name like Orion, Lacerta or Andromeda. Every direction in space belongs in a constellation, for example Polaris is in Ursa Minor and Sirius is in Canis Major. Most laypeople use the word constellation to mean a pattern of stars, but technically the proper word for that is "asterism." Most constellations have at least one famous asterism in them (the one with the same name as the constellation itself), but the constellation includes ALL the stars in that part of the sky, even those that are too faint to see, while the asterism is just the brightest stars.
The constellation has a total of 281 stars in the area defined by the constellation boundary of which only 11 are main stars.
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How old is Taurus the bull constellation?
Taurus is the name of a constellation ... one of those in the Zodiac.It looks like a big letter ' V ' above and to the right of Orion.
Crab Nebula
Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades, a group of stars also known as M45 and they comprise the shoulder of the constellation Taurus
It's in the constellation of Taurus, the brightest star in that constellation.
Going to the constellation Taurus. Going to the constellation Taurus.
The nearest star to constellation Taurus is Gliese 176.
The nickname of Taurus is "The Bull".
A ancient greek discovered the constellation Taurus. His name is not known because that person has vanished in the after world. Mwahahahahaha
1054 - The Crab Nebula in the constellation of Taurus. [See Link]
The Taurus Zodiac sign stands for the Bull