Aranea vs Xiphias
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Aranea
Aranea was an obsolete constellation proposed by the English naturalist John Hill in his 1754 astronomical work Urania. Hill drew it as a long-legged spider and placed it among a group of new animal figures that he added to historical sky charts. Like Hirudo, the Leech, and Limax, Aranea was not adopted into the standardized system later recognized by the International Astronomical Union. [Former...
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Xiphias
Xiphias is an obsolete constellation name derived from the Greek word for swordfish. Johannes Kepler used the name in the 1627 Rudolphine Tables, but modern astronomical practice treats the corresponding region of sky as Dorado, one of the 88 officially recognized constellations. Dorado lies in the southern sky and contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky...
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