Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world
The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979.
Orion is bordered by Taurus to the northwest,Eridanus to the southwest,Lepus to the south, Monoceros to the east, and the Gemini to the northest. covering 594 square degrees.
Orion ranks twenty-sixth of the 88 constellation in size
Orion is most visible in the evening sky from January to March,winter in the Northern Hemisphere,
and summer in the Southern Hemisphere
In the tropics(less than about 8 degrees from the equator), the constellation transits at the Zenith.
AsJodi Picoult qouted in the book My Sister's Keeper
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He insisted that stars were people so we loved,they were traced in constellation, to live forever.