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What is the constellation at the end of July?

People born between July/kloc-0 and July 22 correspond to cancer.

It belongs to the water sign. Cancer people are often full of love, and they take motherhood to the extreme.

Cancer is the first constellation to start in summer.

Cancer is one of the zodiac signs. Cancer is a medium-sized faint winter constellation with an area of 506 square degrees, accounting for about 1.2% of the celestial sphere. Every year, at the night of 65438+1October 29th, the tumor center passes through the transit.

Study history

Although there are few bright stars in Cancer, the ancients have long noticed it. Among the 48 constellations proposed by Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, there is Cancer. In ancient China, the starry sky in Cancer area was called haunted house and willow house.

Cancer map

Cancer is famous in ancient times, on the one hand, because it is located on the ecliptic, from July 2 1 to August1every year. The sun moved from the earth to Cancer. On the other hand, it is also related to the amazing "ghost cluster" M44 in this constellation. In the central part of Cancer, haunted house I (θ Cancri), haunted house II (η Cancri), haunted house III (Asellus Borealis) and haunted house IV (Asellus Australis) form a quadrilateral, in which there is a cloud-like Feiyun.