Canis Major: Less obvious constellation
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Our brightest star can lead us to Orion’s hunting dog

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Canis Major, the Great Dog, was included in Ptolemy ’s 2nd-century list of 48 constellations in his great work Almagest .
This became the standard reference work for astronomy for a millennium .
It championed the idea that Earth , not the sun, was the centre of the solar system, so it was not perfect.
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