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What does Ophiuchus mean?

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  1. (astronomy) A zodiacal constellation of the northern summer said to depict a man (Asclepius) holding a serpent; the serpent is the constellation Serpens.
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We now pass northward to the region covered by map No. 14, including the remainder of Ophiuchus and Serpens.
Just south of Serpens and Ophiuchus lies one of the most beautiful and easily recognized constellations in the heavens.
It shows an active star-forming complex known as Rho Ophiuchus about 160pc away.
In the heart of the M16 nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus, stars are being born by the hundreds.
But thus had the gurus spoken for four thousand years, on Earth and on Ophiuchus.
The two parts represent the serpent held by the constellation of Ophiuchus.

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