hydra

     

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Trivia about hydra

  • Fittingly, this crowded island shares its name with a many-headed monster, slain by Hercules
  • The biggest constellation is this one, "the sea serpent", which covers 3.16% of the sky & contains 68 visible stars
  • A small star group called the cup or crater seems to sit atop this water snake
  • The name of this multi-headed water serpent means "water serpent"
  • This many-headed serpent of Greek mythology lived in Lake Lerna in Argolis
  • It wasn't hard for this Lernaean serpent to get ahead; every time one of its heads was cut off, 2 grew in its place
  • This water snake is the largest of all 88 constellations
  • The venomous blood of this serpent was used to make Hercules' poison arrows
  • The work seen here shows Hercules in his second labor doing battle with this monster

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