The constellation that is pictured is Piscis Austrinus. Piscis is located in the southern hemisphere. In Latin Piscis means "the southern fish." Piscis is the first discovered by the second century astronomer Ptolemy. The constellation is relatively faint, but this constellation has a very bright star. The brightest star in the constellation is called Fomalhaut. This star is also one of the brightest stars in the sky. In the late sixteenth century, a Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius divided some of the stars to create a new constellation called, Grus. Piscis contains three stars and confirmed planets as well. Piscis is usually depicted as a great fish swallowing the water that is flowing from the jar held by, Aquarius. In ancient Egypt, the constellation is associated with the fish that saved goddess Isis,
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