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🌊 A South Asian river 🌌 A star group
Indus

Indus

9.9
A faint group of stars in the southern sky
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɪndəs/
translation icon : Indus
  • One of these models, developed for a book on 15th-century Italian philosopher-magician Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, brought him to an insight on the nature of the Indus script.

Examples

  • On clear nights, one can easily find the faint constellation Indus in the southern sky.

  • "The concept of urban redevelopment has gone far beyond slum clearance, and the concept of economic underutilization is a valid one," the Missouri Supreme Court stated in Tierney v. Planned Indus.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The constellation Indus is home to several interesting deep-sky objects visible from the southern hemisphere.

  • Astronomers often study the stars within Indus to learn more about the formation of galaxies.

Compounds

Indus River
1 3.5

A large river in South Asia that starts in Tibet and flows to the Arabian Sea

Indus civilization
7.5

An ancient culture in the Indus Valley from 2600 to 1750 BC with planned cities

Surface Forms

Indus main

Etymology

Indus for the constellation comes from the Latin word Indus, which meant 'Indian', and European sailors and mapmakers used that name to picture a man in the southern sky, so the group of stars is called Indus.