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Taurus

Conspicuous zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion, represented as a bull. The Sun passes through Taurus from mid-May to late June. In astrology, the dates for Taurus are between about 20 April and 20 May (see precession).

The V-shaped Hyades open star cluster is in the bull's head, with Aldebaran as the red eye. The Pleiades open cluster is in the shoulder. Taurus also contains the Crab nebula, the remnants of the supernova of AD 1054, which is a strong radio and X-ray source and the location of one of the first pulsars to be discovered.

In the conventional constellation figure Taurus represents only the front part of a bull. The tips of the horns are marked by Beta and Zeta Tauri. German lawyer and amateur astronomer Johann Bayer regarded Beta Tauri as belonging to Auriga, and called it Gamma Aurigae. T Tauri is one of a class of variable stars thought to represent an early stage of stellar formation.



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Clark, of the Cambridge staff, resolved the Crab nebula in Taurus, which the reflector of Lord Rosse had never been able to decompose.
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Hem, hem, hem; here they are --here they go --all alive: --Aries, or the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull and Jimimi
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