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Hydra the Water Snake, the longest constellation

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You can see the entire constellation Hydra the Water Snake on April evenings. Corvus the Crow and Crater the Cup are 2 constellations that sit upon the Water Snake. The bright star Spica in Virgo the Maiden is nearby.
Hydra the Water Snake is the largest of all 88 constellations. It fills the space between zodiacal constellations along the ecliptic (the path the sun, moon and planets take across our sky) on one side and the Milky Way on the other. Hydra’s brightest star is Alphard, which i

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