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Pisces

Zodiac constellation straddling the celestial equator

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Also known as Psc · Piscium · Pisces (constellation)

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Pisces is a constellation of the zodiac. Its vast bulk—and main asterism viewed in most European cultures per Greco-Roman antiquity as a distant pair of fishes connected by one cord each that join at an apex—are in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its traditional astrological symbol is (♓︎). Its name is Latin for "fishes". It is between Aquarius, of similar size, to the southwest and Aries, which is smaller, to the east. The ecliptic and the celestial equator intersect within this constellation, at the first point of Aries, and in Virgo, at the first point of Libra. The Sun passes directly overhead of the equator, on average, at approximately this point in the sky, at the March equinox.

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Notation: ♓
Short name: Psc
Area: 889 square degree
Named after: fish
Shares border with: Triangulum
Andromeda
Pegasus
Aquarius
Cetus
Aries
Official name: Pisces
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1.iau.org/public/themes/constellations/#n4
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