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Orion, the Mighty Hunter.(Brief Article)

Science Matters: Plants, Sounds, Seasons and Night Sky, a Weekly Reader publication

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Once upon a time, there was a man named Orion. He was a great hunter. One day, while Orion was chasing a bear, he was stung by a scorpion and died. The gods were all very sad. They liked Orion so much that they decided to put him in the sky as a constellation.

The gods also put the scorpion in the sky as a constellation. However, they put the scorpion at the other end of the sky so that it could never sting Orion again.

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