Okay, so today I decided to mess around with something totally new – figuring out which constellation is named after a musical instrument. Sounds simple, right? It kinda blew my mind how much I didn’t know.
First, I just straight-up Googled it. I typed in “constellation named after musical instrument.” I mean, why not start with the obvious?
The results popped up pretty quick. Lyra. It’s supposed to be a lyre, some ancient stringed instrument. I felt a little dumb for not knowing that, to be honest. It’s not like I’m a total space cadet or anything, but constellations aren’t exactly my strong suit.
Then, I got curious. I wanted to see what this Lyra thing actually looked like. So I jumped over to one of those star chart websites.
Finding Lyra was harder than I thought. I mean, the sky is a BIG place. I poked around, zooming in and out, feeling totally lost. It’s like, where do you even start? Eventually, I figured out how to use the search function on the site (duh!), and bam, there it was.
It’s not super obvious that it’s a lyre, to be fair. It’s just a few bright stars. I guess you gotta use your imagination a little, right?
I then went down a little rabbit hole, I tried to found out other constellation which named after an instrument
- I input some keywords like this “constellation musical instrument”.
- Still get some informations of Lyra.
- And there is an another constellation that I found which named after an instrument, called “Antlia”.
So, yeah, that was my little adventure for the day. From knowing absolutely nothing to finding Lyra and Antlia, It was a fun, and a learning process for me.
