✧ Aries

  Aries is an asterism in Aries.

          ·⢤⣀
            ⠈⠙⠲⢤⣀⡀
                 ⠉⠓⠦⣄⡀
                     ⠉⠙⠲⢤⣀
                         ⠈⠙⠲⠤⣄⡀
                              ⠉⠓⠦⣄⣀
                                  ⠈⠙•⣄
                                     ⠈⠳⣄
                                       ⠈⠙⢦⡀
                                          ⠙⠦⣄
                                            ⠈•
                                             ⡇
                                             ·

  Type            Asterism
  Constellation   Aries
  Stars           4

  More information about Aries

  Aries is Hamal, Sheratan and one fainter star, and that is most of it.
  The Sun used to cross the equator here at the spring equinox, which is
  what made this the first zodiac sign, and the crossing point is still
  called the First Point of Aries even though precession moved it into
  Pisces about 2,000 years ago. The Babylonians drew a hired farm worker
  in these stars before the Greeks made it a ram.

  Etymology
  From        Latin
  Reading     Aries
  Literally   the ram

  ┌ Babylon
  │ Luhunga, the hired man
  │
  ├ ✕
  │ the farm worker becomes a ram
  │
  ├ Greece
  │ Krios, the ram
  │ Κριός
  │
  ├ Rome
  │ Aries
  │
  └ English · now
    Aries

  The evolution of Aries over time

  -50,000 years
  
                     ⠐·⠤⣀⡀
                         ⠈⠉⠒⠢⠤⣀⡀
                               ⠉⠉⠒⠦⠤⣀⡀
                                     ⠉⠉⠒⠦⢄⣀⡀
                                           ⠉⠑⠒⠦⢄⣀
                                                 ⠉⠑⠒⠤⢄⣀
                                                       ⠉⠑⠒⠤⣄⣀
                                                             ⠉⠓⠒⠤⣄⡀
                                                                  ⠈⠉⠓⠢⠤⡄
                                                                 Hamal •⡄
                                                                        ⠙⡄
                                                                         ⠘⢄
                                                                          ⠈⢆
                                                                           ⠈⢧
                                                                            ⠈⢣
                                                                              • Sheratan
                                                                              ⢸
                                                                              ⢸
                                                                              ⢸
                                                                              · Mesarthim
  
  now
  
                     ⠠⣀
                     · ⠉⠑⠲⢤⣀
                            ⠉⠒⠢⢤⣀
                                ⠈⠉⠒⠤⣄⡀
                                     ⠈⠑⠒⠤⣀⡀
                                          ⠉⠑⠢⠤⣀
                                               ⠉⠓⠢⢄⣀
                                                    ⠉⠒⠦⢄⡀
                                                        ⠈⠉⠒⠤⣄⡀    Hamal
                                                             ⠈⠑⠒•⡀
                                                                 ⠉⠢⡀
                                                                   ⠈⠓⣄
                                                                      ⠑⢦
                                                                        ⠙⠢⡀
                                                                          ⠈⠲⢄
                                                                            ⠈• Sheratan
                                                                             ⠈⡆
                                                                              ⢣
                                                                              ⠸· Mesarthim
  
  
  +50,000 years
  
                     ⡀
                     ·⠑⠢⣄⡀
                         ⠉⠓⠤⣀
                             ⠑⠢⢄⡀
                                ⠉⠓⠦⣀
                                    ⠉⠢⢄⡀
                                       ⠈⠑⠦⣄⡀
                                           ⠉⠒⠤⡀
                                              ⠈⠑⠢⣀
                                                  ⠉⠲⢤⣀
                                                     ⠈⠑⠢⢄⡀
                                                   Hamal •⠑⠢⢤⣀
                                                             ⠈⠉⠒⠤⣀⡀
                                                                  ⠈⠑⠢⢤⣀
                                                                      ⠈⠉⠒⠤⣀⡀  Sheratan
                                                                           ⠈•⡀
                                                                             ⢱
                                                                              ⢧
                                                                              ⠈· Mesarthim
  

  Over 50,000 years either way the longest side of this figure changes by 12%, and the furthest
  any of its stars travels is 3.5 degrees. Proper motion only: this is the shape changing, not
  the sky turning or the pole moving.

  curl 'skymap.sh/Aries/evolution.gif'

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Aries