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The asterism's appearance signified the coming of the rainy season and increase in food staple manioc, used at feasts to feed guests.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Later, four more stars were added to thisasterism, but the name remained unchanged.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its mainasterismconsists of 11 stars, and 108 stars in total are brighter than magnitude 6.5.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Traditional astronomy tends to group stars into asterisms, and give proper names to those, not to individual stars.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historically, the most prominent stars were grouped into constellations and asterisms, and the brightest stars gained proper names.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Star sapphires and rubies get theirasterismfrom the titanium dioxide impurities (rutile) present in them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A ruby is known as a star ruby if it contains anasterism(distinctive star-shaped light refraction) in the gem.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A total of 1,345 stars are drawn, grouped into 257 asterisms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The stars are arranged in several small groupings and asterisms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Anasterismor its analogue may be used in conjunction with the extra space to mark a smaller subdivision than a subchapter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In addition to simple body colour, minerals can have various other distinctive optical properties, such as play of colours,asterism, chatoyancy, iridescence, tarnish, and pleochroism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then a number is given to the individual stars in thisasterism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some rubies show a three-point or six-pointasterismor star.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is not mentioned as frequently as other asterisms in mythology.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Small rutile needles present in gems are responsible for an optical phenomenon known asasterism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Star sapphires and rubies get theirasterism(star-forming shine) from the presence of titanium dioxide impurities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their names are related to the most prominent asterisms in the respective sectors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This usually happened on the pooramasterismof one of the spring months.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The "therefore" sign is sometimes used as a substitute for anasterism.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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