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Monoceros
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Etymology
First recorded by the
astronomer
Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but possibly created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From
monoceros
, a "
unicorn
"
Proper noun
A
winter
constellation
of the
northern
sky, said to resemble a
unicorn
. It lies amid the
Milky Way
, just east of the constellation
Orion
.
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