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Orion  & Taurus

Orion hunts Taurus in the winter sky.

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Use the stars of Orion's belt to find Aldebaran in the face of Taurus, the bull.

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Orion's belt oribelt.jpg (5464 bytes) points toward taurusface.jpg (5789 bytes) the face of the bull, Taurus.

The star, Aldebaran is the reddish eye tau_eye.jpg (4951 bytes) of Taurus.

Look for the face of Taurus, the Bull, in the constellation and the historical drawing!

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