Sagittarius

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 * Sagittarius has a very confound and jumbled history. There really isn't a definite answer to who named and discovered it.
 * Sagittarius is latin for archer meaning someone skilled with a bow and arrow other than that there's not any other names for it
 * In Greek mythology sagittarius was a centaur meaning half human and half horse. They were known to be bad-mannered, deceitful, cheating, violent, and they drank too much. One centaur named Chiron however was different. He was loving, thoughtful, and wise. Chiron's skills and wisdom soon became widely known that children of many famous kings were sent to him to be taught manners. Among his students were the strong and mighty Hercules and Aesculapius. As the story goes Hercules traveled really far one day and was quenched with thirst, so he asked a friend to open up a jar of wine kept in his house. The wine belonged solely to all the centaurs. His friend did as he asked, and when the smell of the wine flowed out to the countryside the other centaurs angerly galloped to the house, and demanded to know why he dare open the wine without consulting them. Soon after all the centaurs attacked him and Hercules. Hercules then settled the matter by killing many of the centaurs and telling the rest never return. Chiron however was closeby observing the event, but didnt take part in it. Hercules had know chiron and respected him a great deal, but could not reconize him from afar so he misstakenly shot him with a poisoned arrow. Zeus, Hercules farther saw what had happend and knew of his sons sadness, so he gave Chiron a resting place among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
 * Sagittarius is located 16960.5 Light Years from our Solar system and in the northern hemisphere it is lying low in the south and runs through the milkyway. It is also circumpolar



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