Cancer, the crab:
An extremely ancient yet difficult to spot constellation. Cancer
represents the crab that Hera sent to distract the hero Hercules
as he was fighting the sea serpent Hydra. The constellation of Cancer
contains no bright stars so it is one of the hardest of the zodiac
constellations to find. Look for the constellation just to the west
of Leo. Within Cancer can be found M44, also known as the Beehive
Cluster, or the Praesepe. This is an open cluster of stars, that
under a dark sky looks like a small, fuzzy cloud.
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