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This week too, the starry sky master will bring you starry sky knowledge that you'll want to talk about tomorrow.

This time, it is one of the "Summer Triangle," which serves as a landmark for finding summer constellations and stars."Lyra"I will introduce.

 

[Lyra]

Vega, the star that decorates the Milky Way

Lyra is one of the most representative summer constellations and represents the shape of a harp, a musical instrument.

In particular, Vega, the alpha star, is one of the stars that form the Summer Triangle.

This Vega is the Tanabata festival in Japan."Orihime Star"It is famous for being the first star of the constellation Aquila, Altair, and the Milky Way flows between the two stars, as in the Tanabata legend. The actual distance between them is said to be about 1 light years.

The landmark of Lyra is a small, compact constellation, but because it is located in the northern sky, it can be seen somewhere in the night sky all year round, regardless of the time.

 

The sad story of Orpheus

The myth of Lyra tells the story of the lyre master Orpheus and his beautiful wife Eurydice.

Orpheus was the son of Apollo, the god of the arts, and the greatest lyre player in Greece.

Orpheus had a beautiful wife, Eurydice. The two had been living happily since their marriage, but Eurydice was bitten by a poisonous snake while picking flowers in the field and died. When Orpheus found out about this, he decided to get his wife back and went down to the underworld.

 

Orpheus descended to the underworld and begged Hades, the king of the underworld, to return his wife to him. At first, Hades stubbornly refused, but he was captivated by the beautiful sound of Orpheus' lyre and agreed to return Eurydice to earth. However,"You must never look back until you emerge from the underworld onto the earth."The condition can be attached.

 

Orpheus was delighted and continued on his way to the underworld, but he started to worry about whether his wife was really following him. Just when he was almost to the surface, he couldn't bear it any longer and turned around, and his wife was dragged back to the underworld with a scream.

 

Orpheus regretted his actions, went mad, and threw himself into the river. Zeus, who missed his musical talent, raised Orpheus' lyre to the heavens and made it the constellation of Lyra.

In the summer, when the beautiful Lyra shines brilliantly, why not gaze at the night sky at Grand Chariot Big Dipper 135° while thinking about the mythology of the constellation? We look forward to seeing you there.

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