cancer

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This constellation was discovered and named by the famous astronomer, galileo.Unfortunetly i could not find any other names for cancer,but i did find out that before it was a crab poeple sometimes thought of it as a water beetle,a cray fish, a lobster, and sometimes even a scarab and tortiose.the mythology on it is that when hercules was fighting the water monster Hydra, Hydra sent a crab after hercules and the crab bit his foot.And the goddes Hera put him in the stars for his bravery.It is the forth constellation in the Zodiac. The major stars that make up Cancer are Alpha Cancri, Beta Cancri, Gamma Cancri, Delta Cancri, Zeta Cancri, Lambda Cancri, and Xi cancri. [] [] [] []