Pisces (constellation)

High school (ages 12+)
Space & Astronomy

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/pisces-constellation

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the constellation boundaries?Defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
2. What is the precessional era?Age of Pisces (approx. 1st century BCE to 21st century CE)
3. What are the two fish in the sky called?They are the stars that make up the constellation Pisces, which looks like two fish swimming together.
4. Why do people say Pisces is a zodiac sign?Pisces is the second sign of the zodiac, and it was the area of the sky where the Sun was during the spring equinox for about two thousand years.

Axial Precession: The slow, conical wobble of a rotating body's axis, affecting star positions over millennia.
Vernal Equinox: The point in Earth's orbit where the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving north, marking the start of spring.
Supercluster: A massive collection of galaxy clusters, representing one of the largest structures in the universe.