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	Cassiopeia (constellation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cassiopeia is a northern constellation which Greek mythology considered to represent a vain queen.
		Cassiopeia was the site of Tycho Brahe's supernova of 1572 (SN 1572), and is also the location of Cassiopeia A, the strongest radio source in the sky (other than the sun).
		Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova which apparently occurred in about 1667, although there is no record of it having been observed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassiopeia_(constellation) (610 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cassiopeia (constellation)
		Cassiopeia is a northern constellation representing the legendary queen of Ethiopia Cassiopeia, who was the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda.
		Cassiopeia was the site of Tycho Brahe 's supernova of 1572, and is also the location of Cassiopeia A, the strongest radio source in the sky (other than the sun).
		Cassiopeia was Queen of a land called AEthopia (not the modern-day equivalent), wife to king Cepheus, mother to Andromeda and a very vain woman.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cassiopeia-(constellation) (1391 words)

	Cassiopeia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cassiopeia (or Casseipeia), a queen of Aethiopia in Greek mythology.
		Cassiopeia, the name of an overnight rail service in Japan.
		Cassiopeia, the first Queen of Lireo in Encantadia TV series of GMA Network.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassiopeia (115 words)

	Cassiopeia
		Cassiopeia is the legendary queen of Ethiopia and wife of the king, Cepheus.
		The royal couple had a daughter Andromeda who Cassiopeia was forced to offer up to a sea monster because she had offended the sea nymphs boasting about her beauty.
		Cassiopeia was later transported to the sky, where she sits on her throne and circles the pole.
	starryskies.com /The_sky/constallations_html/cassiopeia.html (383 words)

	eSky: Cassiopeia
		Part of the myth of Perseus played out across the northern sky, the tragic figure of Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda.
		Cassiopeia's constellation straddles the Milky Way in the far northern sky, neighbouring the constellations dedicated to her husband King Cepheus, her daughter Andromeda, and Andromeda's rescuer Perseus.
		Cassiopeia includes a number of open clusters, but none of these is visible to the naked eye.
	www.glyphweb.com /esky/constellations/cassiopeia.html (373 words)

	Constellation Cassiopeia
		Once you found Cassiopeia or the Big Dipper, which is located opposite of the celestial pole, you can easily locate other constellations of the northern hemisphere.
		Long ago in ethiopia Cassiopeia has been the wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda.
		To punish her, her daughter was chained to a rock of the coast as a sacrifice for a sea monster.
	www.seds.org /Maps/Stars_en/Fig/cassiopeia.html (529 words)

	Cassiopeia
		Cassiopeia (or Cassiepeia) is the legendary Ethiopian queen, seated on a throne "the shining Cassiopeia's chair".
		Cassiopeia was the daughter of Arabus, whose name was given to Arabia, a son of Hermes.
		Cassiopeia was condemned by the gods to swing forever around the North Celestial Pole because it is symbolic of the punishment she received for her offensive boasting.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Cassiopeia.html (3775 words)

	Constellation Cassiopeia - Crystalinks
		Cassiopeia is one of the stars that orbits the Polestar throughout the year.
		The stars in Cassiopeia are all less than second magnitude brightness, but as they are visible at northern latitudes for the whole night all year, you may want to know them better.
		Cassiopeia was a queen and the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda.
	www.crystalinks.com /cassiopeia.html (1208 words)

	Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia is the most beautiful constellation to the night sky.
		Cassiopeia was very prond of her daughter’s beautyand boasted that she more beautiful that the Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs attendants of Thetis.
		Early in the morning “pinkfinger” Eous openned the door to let Helioscomed in with his gold coach Cepheus and cassiopeia look their daughter Andromeda to the rocky sea beach Andomeda was chained by her parents to a sea cliff to be caten by the monstre.
	www.eso.org /outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/catchastar/CAS2002/cas-projects/bulgaria_cas_1 (1811 words)

	The Constellation Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia is one of the most distinctive Northern constellations, easily identified by the W-shape of her five brightest stars.
		The legend of the unfortuante Queen Cassiopeia, wife of King Cepheus of Joppa, centers on the story of their daughter Andromeda.
		As punishment for her vanity, Cassiopeia was cast into the heavens by Poseidon, but in a somewhat lewd and unseemly posture.
	www.astro.uvic.ca /~jclem/A120/cass.html (371 words)

	Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia is very easy to recognize thanks to its characteristic W shape: in comparison with Ursa Maior, it is on the opposite side of the Polar Star.
		Appeared near kappa Cassiopeiae, the supernova reached the brightness of Venus and it was visible to the naked eye for sixteen months.
		Cassiopeia, daughter of Arab son of Ermes, was wife of Cepheus, to whom she gave a daughter, Andromeda.
	www.astrofilitrentini.it /mat/costell/cas_e.html (193 words)

	Science Line - Night Patrol - Constellations - Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In ancient mythology Cassiopeia was a proud queen, wife of King Cepheus and mother of the princess Andromeda, today she shares the heavens with these constellations.
		Since Cassiopeia and the Plough revolve around Polaris on opposite sides, when one constellation is riding high in the sky the other is closest to the horizon.
		The brightest star cluster in Cassiopeia is NGC-457 often called the 'Owl cluster' owing to its shape (NGC stands for New General Catalogue, a catalogue of star clusters, galaxies and nebulae).
	www.sciencenet.org.uk /astron/const/ConstList/cassiopeia.html (521 words)

	The Constellations : Starshine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Andromeda was the daughter of Cassiopeia the beautiful Aethiopian queen of the city of Joppa in Phoenicia.
		Cassiopeia was the beautiful Aethiopian queen of the city of Joppa in Phoenicia.
		Cassiopeia was boastful about her natural beauty and especially the beauty of their daughter Andromeda.
	www.starshine.com /frankn/astronomy/constellations.asp (6841 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cassiopeia, in astronomy, Constellation (Constellations) - Encyclopedia
		Cassiopeia, in astronomy, prominent northern constellation located almost directly opposite the Big Dipper across the north celestial pole.
		In this constellation is located Cassiopeia A, a discrete radio source emitting 21-cm radiation with great intensity.
		Cassiopeia reaches its highest point in the evening sky in November, but because of its location near the pole it is visible throughout the year to most northern observers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cassiop-ast.html (228 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Heroine Cassiopeia in Myth and Art
		The legendary figure Cassiopeia is famous for her role in one of the most memorable stories of Greek mythology - the tale of Andromeda.
		And in some respects Cassiopeia is equally famous for being the personification of a vain, self absorbed woman who causes enormous anguish and suffering with a single thoughtless act.
		In myth, Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus (Cepheus was a king of Ethiopia according to most sources).
	www.loggia.com /myth/cassiopeia.html (490 words)

	Cassiopeia - The Constellation Home Page
		Cassiopeia was the legendary queen of Ethiopia, known throughout the land for her elegant beauty.
		Enraged by Cassiopeia's false bragging, the Sea Nymph's begged the God of the Sea, Poseidon, to punish the queen for her insults and conceit.
		The constellations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus are circumpolar constellations which lie on or near to the Milky Way.
	www.astromax.com /con-page/autumn/cas-01.htm (836 words)

	Constellation Cassiopeia - SkyTour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia is a bright constellation located near the North Celestial Pole.
		Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper form a seesaw with the Polaris star at the fulcrum point.
		Gamma Cassiopeia, in the middle of the “W”, is a variable star whose brightness can be as dim as magnitude 3.0 and as bright as 1.6.
	www.sky-watch.com /skytour/cas.html (280 words)

	Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - Chapter 15: THE GRAEAE AND THE GORGONS, PERSEUS AND MEDUSA, ATLAS, ANDROMEDA. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia his queen, proud of her beauty, had dared to compare herself to the Sea-nymphs, which roused their indignation to such a degree that they sent a prodigious sea-monster to ravage the coast.
		Cassiopeia was an AEthiopian, and consequently, in spite of her boasted beauty, fl; at least so Milton seems to have thought, who alludes to this story in his "Penseroso," where he addresses Melancholy as the
		Cassiopeia is called "the starred AEthiop, queen" because after her death she was placed among the stars, forming the constellation of that name.
	www.bulfinch.org /fables/bull15.html (1857 words)

	Cassiopeia
		Queen Cassiopeia is the lovely, but vain queen and wife to King Cepheus of Ethiopia.
		Cassiopeia had the presumption to claim that she was even more lovely than the exquisite Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs who were the daughters of the gentle god Nereus, known as the Old Man of the Sea.
		To appease the god, King Cepheus had to offer his daughter Andromeda as a sacrifice to the monster, but the hero Perseus was able to slay the monster before it attacked Andromeda.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/cas.html (160 words)

	Constellation Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Joyful beyond words, Cepheus and Cassiopeia led Perseus and Andromeda to their house, where a great feast and celebration were prepared.
		Meanwhile Cepheus and Cassiopeia had died and were likewise given honored places among the stars by Poseidon.
		Another story says that for her bragging, Cassiopeia was chained to her throne and placed in the sky to circle the North Star.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/cassiopeia.html (646 words)

	Peoria Astronomical Society - Learning Topics-Cassiopeia (The Queen)
		Cassiopeia is known as the Celestial W when below the pole and the Celestia M when above it.
		Cassiopeia is bound to her chair and forever circles the pole with her head downward.
		Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda.
	www.astronomical.org /portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=18 (194 words)

	Cassiopeia A with the Very Large Array
		Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a supernova explosion that occured over 300 years ago in our Galaxy, at a distance of about 11,000 light years from us.
		A supernova is the explosion that occurs at the end of a massive star's life; and Cassiopeia A is the expanding shell of material that remains from such an explosion.
		Cassiopeia A is one of the brightest radio sources in the sky, and has been a popular target of study for radio astronomers for decades.
	www.aoc.nrao.edu /~trector/cas_a (647 words)

	The Stellar Guide: Cassiopeia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cassiopeia, the Queen, is visible in the Northern Hemisphere all year long.
		The wife of Cepheus and the mother of Andromeda, Cassiopeia is bound to her chair and forever circles the pole with her head downward.
		This was an appropriate punishment by the Nereids (Sea Nymphs) for Cassiopeia's boast of being more beautiful than all of the Nereids.
	www.botproductions.com /stellar/cassiopeia.html (76 words)

	Cassiopeia
		She looks like a "W" or "M" in the sky, depending on where she is. Some legends say that Cassiopeia was chained into the sky and sometimes hangs upside-down to remind others not to be so boastful.
		Cassiopeia is a northern circumpolar constellation, so it can be viewed all year long.
		There are two planetary nebulae within Cassiopeia, one being the Bubble Nebula.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/the_universe/Constellations/circumpolar/cassiopeia.html&edu=high (282 words)

	Chandra :: Photo Album :: Cassiopeia A :: 23 Aug 04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This spectacular image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is the most detailed image ever made of the remains of an exploded star.
		Unlike the rapidly rotating neutron stars in the Crab Nebula and Vela supernova remnants that are surrounded by dynamic magnetized clouds of electrons called pulsar wind nebulas, this neutron star is quiet, faint, and so far shows no evidence for pulsed radiation.
		A working hypothesis is that the explosion that created Cassiopeia A produced high-speed jets similar to but less energetic than the hypernova jets thought to produce gamma-ray bursts.
	chandra.harvard.edu /photo/2004/casa (391 words)

	Cassiopeia
		This creature he sent off to Cassiopeia's land of Ethiopia with the command to lay waste the country and to terrorize the inhabitants.
		Queen Cassiopeia, bound into her celestial chair, was placed where she swings upside down as she revolves around the Pole Star.
		One of the most distinctive and well-known constellations, Cassiopeia lies along the Milky Way and is rich in telescopic objects, including two from the Messier list, both open clusters.
	www.eastbayastro.org /articles/lore/cassiope.htm (898 words)

	Cassiopeia A and Supernova 1680 or 1667
		Supernova 1680 or 1667 (3 Cassiopeiae ?) and Supernova Remnant G111.7-2.1 (Cassiopeia A, 3C 461) in Cassiopeia
		The supernova remnant was found among the earliest discrete radio sources, in 1947 by radio astronomers from Cambridge, England, and is the strongest radio source in the sky beyond the solar system.
		Cassiopeia A was the first target to be photographed by Nasa's new Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), also known as AXAF; this is also our image here (see NASA Press Release 99-206).
	www.seds.org /~spider/spider/Vars/casA.html (546 words)

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