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Constellation of Lynx

by

A.Fujii/David Malin Images/Novapix

Reference

a-cst50-00003

Date

2008-11-03

Lynx is a modern northern constellation, created by the astronomer Hevelius in the 17th century. It wanders inconspicuously between the distinctive bright stars of Ursa Major to the east and Gemini and Auriga to the west. Lynx was supposedly named because its stars were so faint that lynx-like eyes were needed to see them.