What are constellations named after?
The ancient Romans, Greeks, and many other early civilizations looked at groups of stars in the northern two-thirds of the night’s sky. They then named those groups of stars after animals and and characters of various myths. The constellation of Leo was named after a lion, Pisces was named after two fish, and Taurus is a bull. Musca was a fly and Tucana is a toucan. The constellations Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Perseus, and Orion were named after heroes and heroines of the Greek’s mythology. Some of the well known groups of stars are only parts of a constellation.
