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  • Monoceros

    Its brightest star is Alpha Monocerotis, with a magnitude of 3.9. This constellation contains R Monocerotis, a young star immersed in a nebula. In 1612 Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius introduced this constellation on a celestial globe he made and represented it as a unicorn. Because this area of the…

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    Its brightest star is Alpha Monocerotis, with a magnitude of 3.9. This constellation contains R Monocerotis, a young star immersed in a nebula. In 1612 Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius introduced this constellation on a celestial globe he made and represented it as a unicorn. Because this area of the…

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