Alpha Cassiopeiae
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Alpha Cassiopeiae is a star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. It has the proper name Schedar, pronounced; Alpha Cassiopeiae is its Bayer designation, which is Latinized from α Cassiopeiae a
Cassiopeia starfield showing α Cas, the orange giant, in relation to the other stars in the constellation
Cassiopeia, also variously spelled as Cassiope or Cassiepeia, is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology, the queen of Aethiopia and wife of King Cepheus. She was arrogant and vain, characteristics that
Alpha Cassiopeiae
…the Arabic word صدر şadr, meaning "breast" (as in chest), a word which is derived from its relative position in the heart of the mythological queen Cassiopeia. Johannes Hevelius used the name Schedir in his writings, although there were additional traditional spellings of this Arabic transliteration such as…
Cassiopeia winning the contest against the Nereids on a 4th-century Roman mosaic from Paphos in Cyprus.
The king of Ethiopia Cepheus and the queen Cassiopeia thank Perseus for freeing their daughter Andromeda, La Délivrance d'Andromède (1679) Pierre Mignard, Louvre