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Mercury
Roman god of commerce and travel, the messenger of the gods. |
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Venus
Roman goddess of love and beauty...also called "Lucifer" ~ "Light-bearer", as the "morning star". |
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Mars
Roman god of war (and originally, of new growth in the springtime). |
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Jupiter, Roman god of the sky, king of the gods. The moons of the planet Jupiter are called "Jovian satellites". |
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Saturn
Roman god of agriculture, father of Jupiter...Saturday is his day! |
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Uranus
Greek sky god, the personification of "heaven". |
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Neptune
Roman god of the sea, brother of Jupiter. |
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Pluto
Roman god of the underworld, brother of Jupiter. |
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| In the Zodiac, the Nemean lion which Hercules killed in his first labor. |
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In the Zodiac, the centaur who taught archery (and music and medicine) to the heroes Jason, Achilles and Hercules. |
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In the Zodiac, the ram whose golden fleece was sought by Jason and the Argonauts. |
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In the Zodiac, the Virgin, representing the goddess of Justice, holding the scales (Libra). |
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The Zodiacal Sea-goat, representing the goat who suckled the infant Zeus; her horn is our cornucopiae (horn of plenty). |
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In the Zodiac, the Bull which Zeus changed himself into in order to abduct the princess, Europa. |
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In the Zodiac, the Scales which Roman mythology identified as the scales held by the goddess of Justice. |
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The Water-bearer in the Zodiac, he
may represent Ganymede, a Trojan youth who was the cup-bearer of Zeus.
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| The Twins in the Zodiac. They represent Castor and Pollux, who were the brothers of Helen of Troy. |
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In the Zodiac, the
Scorpion, who nipped at the heels of Orion, the Hunter. |
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| In the Zodiac, the Fish, who represent the shapes taken by Venus and Cupid to escape a monster. |
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A constellation of the Zodiac, the
Crab nipped at the heels of Hercules. |
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| A constellation, the Eagle who carried Zeus' thunderbolts. |
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| A star in the constellation Boötes (the Bear Driver), Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. |
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The Charioteer, a constellation representing an early king of Athens, who was said to have invented the four-horse chariot.
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| The brightest star in the constellation Auriga, Capella means "little she-goat". |
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| The Queen in her throne, mother of Andromeda, who angered the gods by comparing the beauty of her daughter with that of the sea-nymphs. Her throne in the sky is upside down. |
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| A constellation, the Hair of Berenice. In 243 B.C. this queen of Egypt put her hair on the altar of Aphrodite. It disappeared, and the priests said that it had so pleased the goddess that she placed it in the heavens. |
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| A constellation, the Dove, representing the dove released by Jason and the Argonauts to help them sail through the clashing rocks. |
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| A constellation, the Swan, representing the swan that Zeus changed himself into in order to seduce Leda, the queen of Sparta, the mother of Helen of Troy and the Gemini. |
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| A constellation, the Southern Crown. |
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| A constellation, the Northern Crown. |
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| A constellation, the Dolphin, representing a dolphin who saved a Greek poet, Arion, from drowning. |
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A constellation, the Dragon, representing a dragon killed by a Greek hero, Cadmus (the brother of that Europa who was kidnapped by Zeus in the form of a bull). Cadmus planted the dragon's teeth, from which there grew up an army of men who helped Cadmus found the city of Thebes. |
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| The constellation representing the great hero, Hercules, the son of a mortal woman and the king of the gods, Jupiter. |
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| The constellation recalling the many-headed serpent killed by Hercules in one of his labors. |
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| The Smaller Lion, a constellation; Leo Minor was created by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. |
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| A constellation, Orion is the Hunter. |
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| Pegasus is the constellation of the Winged Horse, tamed by the Greek hero Bellerophon. When a gadfly stung Pegasus, Bellerophon fell off and was crippled. |
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| The Pole Star is the star closest to the north celestial pole and is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor (the Smaller Bear, or our Little Dipper). |
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| The Serpent's Tail, this constellation represents the tail of the serpent that gave Aesculapius the knowledge of how to bring the dead back to life. |
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| In a different part of the sky from Serpens Cauda, this is the head of Aesculapius' serpent. |
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| Four stars in the shape of a trapezium (a "square" with no parallel sides) inside the constellation of Orion. |
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| "Three points" in the Ursa Major constellation. |
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| The Little Fox, a faint constellation in the middle of the three brightest stars of the summer sky (Deneb, Vega and Altair). |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Cold. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Vapors. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Tranquility. |
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| On the moon, the Eastern "Sea". |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Nectar. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Crises. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Serenity. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Fertility. |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Moisture |
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| On the moon, the "Sea" of Clouds. |
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| The mountains on the moon named for the Pyrenees Mountains on the earth. |
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| The Alps Mountains on the moon, named for the Alps on the earth. |
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| The Bay of Billows on the moon. |
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| Mountains on the moon named for an old Greek name for the Balkan Mountains on the earth. |
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| Mountains on the moon named from a Spanish word that means "a mountain range." |
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| The Bay of Dew on the moon. |
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| The mountains on the moon named after the Jural mountain range on the earth. |
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