2021

What keeps you sane? What is the reason you're still alive? What is so beautiful in this world that it makes you stay?

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Feelings. 

I have experienced the sort of love that I could sacrifice everything for, but in the end, I still love myself better. I still love myself a little more than I love others. And just as I thought that I would never meet someone able to accept this, I met him. 

He is one of the things that keeps me sane at this moment. I like myself when I'm around him because I forget everything else and I'm able to regain my confidence because of his reassuring gaze. 

When I look at him, the first thing I'd notice is his smile, like the sunshine. 

Not the cliche, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey", but really, the sunshine that keeps me alive but something I can't have too much of. 

All I know is I'm in love again. Getting lost in his eyes, his smile, getting pulled into a kiss, into the depths of our emotions, it just feels so right. Anywhere we go, anything we do, it feels right. 

I can even miss him when I'm with him, can't get any closer but still want him closer to me...

It's a little different from what I've felt for my lovers in the past though. There's the wish that we could be together forever, definitely, however, none of us made a move to promise anything. It is as if we both know that it is too much to wish for, that we're just being greedy, that we could be asking for too much. 

Restrain. We restrain ourselves so we won't have it all way too soon, so that everything wouldn't end as fast as we started, like all the relationships that we've ever had. Maybe we're just paranoid, maybe we're just learning how to trust each other after so many broken trusts we have experienced.

He isn't perfect, in fact, far from perfect, but he gives me what I need. He gave me what I thought I never needed, and unveiled the needs that I no longer can deny, unraveling mysteries I didn't know myself. 

Eyes are windows to your soul, and his eyes give me gazes I can never forget, from when we first met till now, indescribable longing, need, joy, hurt, anger, love, shyness. I never imagined that a guy his age could be so adorable looking, but I guess everyone has their charms, and this will solely be his charm on me, something I will never be able to forget even if I may want to someday. He's so full of emotions, surprising me with things he feel. 

His anger at things hurting me that I never realized, his frustration at dumb things that I never knew I was doing, his approving look when I say something confident about myself, his attentiveness and silence when listening to me, they're all so unique. 

Little details that he never seem to be able to miss, the way he winks at me with both of his eyes, the crinkles at the edges when he smiles, how he's able to smile and laugh at himself when the situation gets awkward, it's so hard not to be won over that I keep wondering why I never noticed him before this. 

I can't quite imagine a future with him, but I am happy with what I have now. 

I'm willing to try on this new commitment, and if he's willing to, why not, right? 

I wish I had more time to know him before feeling all these things, but I'd have it no other way. Things are perfect how they happened, just like how I wanted it to be, just like how I wish it to be, no controlled situations, no intentional confrontations.. 

I'm still learning, and if he's my next lesson, I'm more than ready to take it on. 

My Corner

My corner is good. My corner is great. Sitting in my corner is my life.

It's 7am in the morning and I'm once again in my corner at the 9th floor. I see that there are new tables and chairs, which significantly means that there would be more people able to stay here for projects and the like, and this also means that there would be more noise.

I'm still in my corner. I can watch a lot of things going on from my corner, and no one can watch me without myself noticing.

The reason I choose 9th floor, the view is more beautiful, the floor is more silent. There's an air conditioner too, if I decide to go into the middle. But I'm currently always sick, thus I would not go in. I'm quite content to be in my corner.

The only disturbance would be noise. But it's okay. Once I plug in my earphones, I'll be fine.

I always stay here from 7am to 8am. An entire hour by myself. It's a good therapy for me, after an entire yesterday of thinking whether I am good enough, whether I have a true purpose in life.

I don't deny that I think about this in the morning too. But I'm quite happy I have alone time here.

I'm currently in a trance and I need to wake up. I'll wake up eventually but I hope it would be fast. A fast awakening and a fast recovery.  

Petronas Youngstars Day 2018 (PESP)

Hello friends and fellow readers :) Yes it's been a long long time, if you've been following my posts. 

Today, I'm going to talk about my experience during Petronas Youngstars Day 2018. This year, they had it in West Malaysia for a period of four days, 23 to 27 April, and at another two locations in Sabah and Sarawak each. My session is 23rd of April, the first day, also yesterday. It was held at KDU University College, Shah Alam. 

According to the facilitator, there were up to 8000 people who applied for this programme and only around 1000 people received the invitation. I'm truly glad to be one of them. 

The helpers, a.k.a. our potential future seniors, started leading us into the hall starting from 7.20am, separating us from our parents. We were separated from our parents the entire day after that. The breakfast area is only provided for the parents, as breakfast is also provided for us but in packages.

I found myself sitting between a Malay girl and an Indian girl, with the names Aini and Keshika. Keshika told me that if I were to write a blog please do make it straightforward because readers only want to know what happened in the event instead of what happened to me during the event. Regardless of my feelings, I do think she's right, therefore I'll go straight through the process. 

There's no such thing as boys sitting on the left and girls sitting on the right, by the way. There were so many people they could not afford any spaces between anyone. So once we were in, we were with the people beside us until we went out. 

7.30am. 

They started calling us out four by four into each registration counter, and that was when we gave them our original documents and ctc documents. 

The original documents would be returned after phase 1, and the ctc documents, may I remind you, should be signed or stamped by concerned authorities. 

After registration, I settled down and started to get to know the people sitting beside me. People came from as far as Penang, and it was amazing to see how much they could sacrifice for this programme. 

After some briefing from the facilitator, we went to the nearby computer labs to take our CPSQ and TSA tests. 

CPSQ took about 45 minutes of constant clicking while TSA took an hour and a half of constant thinking. :p

However, don't worry because everything is already in your brain. I know many of you would try to prepare for it but I think you don't need to. But go on if you like. TSA consists of 40 questions, by the way. 

TSA was kind of hard because it took us a lot of thinking, but in the end, 90 percent of all us passed the first phase, which broke the past year records of 30 to 60 percent. 

We went back to the hall for lunch and to wait for results which would be out at 1pm. Lunch was pretty good except for the chicken which was a little uncooked near the bone parts. It happened to both me and my friend Aini by the way. I'm secretly hoping PESP people would see this post so that they know about this, but I also hope they won't get offended. 

The people there were very friendly and I got used to the environment quite quickly. It was at lunch time that they gave our original documents back to us. My friend had incomplete documents and thus will have to send the missing documents to some lady before 4th May. Don't worry, she wasn't refused from entering the programme because of this. Some of us even got our documents back at 8.15pm as there were a lot of us to sort through.

The moment when the results for phase 1 came out was heart clenching for all of us. First, we saw Keshika's name, then Aini's and finally mine. It was a miracle that all three of us passed. Even more a miracle when we got to know that this is the first time that 90 percent of us passed the tests in phase 1. 

Because there were too many of us, instead of separating us into two groups of 15 teams, we were separated into two groups of 15 teams and another extra one group of around 4 or 5 teams. 

People who stayed in Penang or Perak, faraway places had trains to catch and therefore could not afford to be in the third group whose session is 6 to 8pm. Therefore the facilitator had to ask favors of those in the first group who stayed in the state of Selangor to sacrifice their seats for those who need them. 

1st group's session was for 2pm to 4pm, while the 2nd group's session was for 4pm to 6pm. I was sorted into the third group.

This is only group 2. Imagine the crowd with group 1 added in

It happened that we were brought into the lecture theatre along with the 2nd group, but we could only watch them as they received their individual study case and group study case, for we were way too far from them and can't see anything.  

The people in my team were all quite friendly and cool. Amir, Irfan, Farah and Afiqah, they were called. We chatted around until we fell silent naturally, and just waited for our fate. 

Irfan on the left and Amir on the right

Around 6.00pm, I was woken up when apparently they were finally giving out the questions. According to the few posts I've seen throughout the web, the study case that was given to us was the same study case for certain previous years, especially last year. I didn't know this until just now, of course, which means I did lose a chance of preparing it, but it's alright.

The question given was - What can we do to increase Mesra sales?

Even one of my friends mentioned it before the question was given to us. Indeed, none of us expected it to come out, even if our potential future seniors themselves told us they couldn't tell us what they received last year for it was the same question.

Our potential future seniors

Apparently it's supposed to be private and confidential,  but now that I see the same question repeated in a few of the blogs I saw, with the difference of just some additional questions to it, I think we may safely assume that all the study cases in the future would revolve around this topic - how to improve Petronas and help them increase profit.

I know that usually everyone would be quiet and write down their own points,  hoping it wouldn't clash with each others', but for my team, we were all extraordinarily willing to help each other. Probably mostly because we were motivated to do so after the speech of "Just speak up, there's no right or wrong" and "Fight, but don't kill each other" by the facilitators. It was quite a surprise to see that our main ideas weren't clashing at all.

The entire hall was emptied save for three more groups as we left the hall.

We were finally led into our interview rooms at 6.30pm. The interviewers actually looked quite tired, but you've got to salute them when they sorted themselves within a few seconds and gave us their welcoming faces again. 

Greetings were exchanged and as we sat down, the interview started. There were five minutes allocated to each person. In my team, we had already sorted out our talking turns and therefore there were no conflicts when the interviewer asked us who would talk first. Amir, who was the leading type, was first naturally, and Farah who volunteered to be next was second. I was the third, Irfan the fourth and Afiqah the fifth. I would say that the individual interview was quite fine,  as you could see the interviewers nod their heads at our presentation and their eyes shining at certain moments. 

Then came the team discussion, 30 minutes and team presentation, 15 minutes. It was mostly just combining our ideas into a big strategy. However, awkwardness befell us when they kept watching how we communicate, and thus the real communicating was a bit slowed down. 

So don't be nervous, whatever you do. 

My team decided to cut down the points into the best ones, while I myself personally think that we should have combined all of them, but indeed what they say was right in a sense, and therefore I agreed with them.

During the discussion, my friend Farah asked to take down one of my points, and although I felt like one subset of it should be kept, I stayed silent because it wasn't really important. Everything was alright until both of the interviewers looked at me intently and one of them asked me whether I was okay with it. I realized then, that they were looking out for my reaction and I kept wondering which reaction would be what they want. Therefore I finally voiced up about the tiny little thing and the point was accepted back. I don't know whether the interviewers were satisfied but at least they didn't stare at me again. 

Finally everything was settled and we started our group presentation. When even that was done, the interviewers told us, "Thanks for taking your time, it's already 8 something." We gave out half laughs as we didn't know whether it was meant as a joke. 

Then one of them told us that we should have learned something from today, and we all nodded our heads and said thank you.

After shaking hands and saying farewell, we all went downstairs, took some pictures and went home. Altogether it was a fruitful day as I went through my first interview in my life.

If you were to have the interview yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next year or the years after next year, good luck to you and may the odds be ever in your favour!

A Lonely, Deserted Road

Hi I'm Ruth

To be honest, the thought of me having a blog never crossed my mind in these recent few months of 2017. Maybe in the beginning of the year, yes. But definitely not these few months, until today.

The reason I actually remembered it's existence was because a friend of mine mentioned it to me. It was as if lightning struck me, and my mind went blank for a whole second before I came back to reality. To think that I actually had promised myself to update this blog more often, I can only say sorry to... I don't know who.

But anyway life went on not as usual but as life does. It had it's ups and downs, and I'm glad to say that it's in the middle this month (let's hope it gets better instead of worse). Last year could have been the worst of all, but I'd be lucky if that is truly so.


Well, today, I went through my random writings and decided to bring you my most recent poem, entitled, A Lonely, Deserted Road.


There you go.



Walking on a lonely, deserted road,
The end seemed so near and yet so far,
Wondering whether stop or go on I should,
I paused, looking at the distance with fear.

Fear, or is it excitement?
With that feeling I yearned to reach it,
And to grasp it I went through torment,
But it felt so right.

Once again I paused, looking back,
And I saw no progression,
A positive mind and heart I lack,
I searched for it in a friend.

Finally I reached the end,
But oh, ti's just the beginning,
Gone was my dear friend,
Long gone in the misty ring.

The misty ring of sorrow,
The rusting chain of misunderstandings,
The blurry haze of doubt,
They took away whatever gave me meanings.

Yet again I paused,
In search for my only friend and companion,
Was I the one lost, or was he lost,
No one could have known.

They all said I was trying too hard,
But tell me whether trying too hard isn't a way of perseverance,
For I need to know the truth of the words,
Yes? No? Maybe? Probably? Yes?

Why should I continue on the road alone,
When I could have a mate and companion,
When I could let that person,
Cease away my woes and pain?

I won't give up on the road,
Nor will I give up on my friend,
For I believe that there's still some love,
Hidden away in the depths of the heart.

I do so wish I would finish the path fast,
To know whether it was worth it,
Whether I would get my love back,
Whether anything would come back to me.

Walking on a lonely, deserted road,
The end seems so near yet so far,
But I would still walk a thousand miles,
With no arguments nor complaints,
If I have my only friend by my side,
Just in order to reach the end.


Read it, comprehend it and think about it as you may. See you soon!

Socialise The Right Way

Hi I'm Ruth


I have friends who are sociopaths, and as I realize that, I really want to say something about it so that people can avoid being sociopaths.


So today, I'm going to share my own view of how to socialise the right way. It's my view, I repeat, therefore you do not need to criticize, but only read and hopefully you can gain something from it.


When one person is really good enough, people's views, the people around that person, will eventually change to accept him.

So do not think that you're a weirdo in their eyes and forever will be, because you will not.


Also, stop judging yourself and others. We do not, and will not have the rights to judge others even after we judge ourselves.


When you have random enemies, it's common and you can say that it's not your fault, it's their brain system's problems that find you weird, but if nearly everyone around you finds you weird you just have to rethink what's actually wrong with yourself and improve.


Not change. Just improvise and eventually it will get better.


Sometimes friends in real life can teach you more than an internet ones can, and friends in real life see you as you really are (unless you act in front of them), so internet friends cannot really judge you accordingly.


You might not be a sociopath here in the internet, but maybe over there in real life, you are.


Or maybe over there you aren't a sociopath either, but you just treat the bad people equally.


However, life shouldn't be like that. If people are bad to us, as Jesus once said, if someone slaps your left cheek, you let them slap the right cheek too. And if someone asks you to walk a mile, walk two miles. Show them that you're good to them even if they treat you badly.


Eye for eye and tooth for tooth doesn't work. It won't bring peace but hate, yes, and war.

So even if they are bad towards you, treat them nicely. You might say that it would seem so fake that you're treating them nicely even when you hate them, but in reality, when you treat them nicely, you are trying to diffuse the hate into no more hate.


Kill them with kindness, as Selena Gomez says. But no, you won't kill them with kindness. They might heal and be a better person because of your kindness. And wouldn't that be better? In a way, you killed their bad former selves with kindness. I guess that was what she meant by killing people with kindness.


So, try to just improvise by smiling at everyone, talking to everyone, not showing a grumpy face, helping others no matter you think they're using you or not, and be a happy person.


You will have more friends like that. True friends or not, it doesn't matter, because when you have a lot of friends, one or two will always show up to be a true friend. If you only have a few, maybe one day it will turn out that you have no true friends.


Plus, when you help people, you certainly feel happy. Even if they're using you, you actually completed their work and accomplished something amazing that they can't even do, or are lazy to do. Feel good about that and forget that they're using you.


I don't say this based on nothing because I do this sometimes. And in school, I'm really happy.


The fake people, when they smile, you think to yourself, "Damn, bad people."


But what if you just think that their smiles are sincere? That'll make your day better.


I'm not asking you to lower down your defences, but asking you to think more positively, so that you'll be a happy person, and being happy, attracts people. That's how you avoid being a sociopath.


Even people like me, I don't know jokes, but helping every single person I can, it makes me feel happy, and it also makes me well known among people.


People will be like, "Oh, this person can help you, and it doesn't matter whether you're close to him or not, for he'll always try his best."


And when you know how to joke, it's better. You help them, and you talk to them, serving jokes, keeping the awkward mood happy and light, and then, eventually, you will have friends.

Don't avoid anyone. Sometimes, even weird people can serve to be the best of friends. Even people you think are bad from first sight. Because many people believe in what goes around comes around, and when you help them, they'll try to find a way to help you back, or they won't give you trouble, at least, or else their conscience wouldn't sit still.


In this case, you learn, a friend in need is a friend indeed.


People are always asking for help, and the least you can do is listen. So listen.


Be selfless. Be a pacifier.


I hope this helps. Thank you for reading this. Have a nice day.

A good relationship

Hi there.

There has been plenty of things that keep going in my mind lately and I'm just going to have to share it, and it depends on you whether you want to argue and give me new ways of thinking below in the comments. You're all welcome to comment out loud. Don't keep them thoughts to rot inside you! :)

What does a good relationship mean to you?
What do we need for a good relationship to form between humans?

Okay, maybe relationship this word is too wide a subject, so let us limit it to just friendships first and then to more if I have the time to complete this topic.

For some people, friendships are give and take. You only befriend a person that benefits you and in turn, you give them benefits.

This is not wrong, but the way of thinking in that kind of friendship is a little, crooked. If you only befriend people that benefit you, it means that you don't befriend people that don't benefit you. Then what are friends for? Aren't they supposed to be helping in times of need, and you will repay them when you're in a good situation?

Okay. So that thought needs some change. It becomes, you befriend people even if they aren't benefiting you, because who knows one day they can benefit you in some ways as a repay?

Now look at the previous pharagraph again. Do you realise something?

Yes. This is what they teach children nowadays in their bedtime stories. You help the fairy whose wings are torn (the fairy doesn't benefit you now) so that one day when you're drowning the fairy will wave her wand and save you (a repay).

But is that way of thinking right? This may be a good way of teaching children to be selfless, but it isn't exactly selfless. And because of these, friendships nowadays have problems because the meaning of selflessness that people perceive as the base of friendships isn't the true meaning of it.

The true meaning of selflessness is to help someone, anyone, without asking for any payback, without even wishing for payback.

That is one of the most important base to every friendship.

A good friendship also needs trust. When that trust is broken, the friendship would be also broken, and it would be very hard to be mended. But before you have trust, you need understanding and acceptance.

You need understanding in a friendship, but usually you don't see that. We cannot ever say that we understand someone, no matter what circumstance they are in because it would never ever be a hundred percent the same as our experience and most of the times, we don't even understand our own selves, so since when do we understand that other person? And even if they don't say it, I bet that the second we say we understand them, their inner voices would say, "No one will ever understand me."

Except God. God understands all. But we aren't talking about Him right now, so shush.

So what do we do if we can't understand our friends? We listen to them venting out their feelings and troubles, and we accept them as who they are. We shouldn't ever unfriend them or leave them just because "we don't understand each other". Instead, we should accept them, putting our trust in them, and continue helping them selflessly.  Therefore, acceptance is a form of understanding.

One more thing, we shouldn't ever judge anyone in any friendship. This is because, when we judge them, our brain will give us negative feed backs. The distance between us and the other person will become further the more we judge, without us knowing. Besides, we never know when people are also judging us and it just might make the friendship even worse.

By accepting, it means accepting every single thing that is weird, nice and bad about our friends. Don't ever think of changing them. Change ourselves instead, change ourselves to accept them, and then nothing will be a problem, and nothing can stand a barrier between us and our friends.

For an example, I had a friend that was so talkative that he never did let anyone talk for any long periods of time. It was getting annoying and I would really have liked to ask him to change, and rebuke him and tell him about it, but hey, accept, right? So I didn't. And guess what? He eventually realised his mistake and he changes on his own.

Isn't  it better to let friends change on their own rather than nagging them or thinking about their weird habits behind their back or even talking about it? Well, of course you can give a piece of advice, but always remember that we need not give too many. It might be the reason your friendship is ruined. You'll never know.

Maybe it's good for them to change, and they should change, yes, but even if they don't change, you should have already love them the way they are.

Be with them through all their troubles. Be their companion. Be there for them, even if they don't open up to you. Even if they don't care about you, you can always care about them behind the scenes. Remember, love doesn't need any paybacks. This is what we should all do for our friends, the meaning of a friend.

And only when the whole world understand this, friendships will be pure and true, with no lies and no betrayals.

The same goes with any relationships. Do the best you can for everyone. Only when you have done your best, you can leave this world without any regrets, saying that your love for people is pure. We do not need any appreciation even after we spend everything on people. We just need to do so, and be happy with it. It depends on people to decide whether to appreciate us, and we do not need to ask for it.

It is not wrong for people to appreciate each other, but it is a little wrong for people to want appreciation, even if you don't see it. You might say that after all the hard work you do, you deserve to be appreciated, but it is actually not for you to judge. Remember, if you truly deserve appreciation, you do not need to want it or wish for it or hope for it to have it, because you already have it, and always will have it.



This discussion is for people of every age.

Water for people, Water by people.

Hi I'm Ruth and I am very glad to say that after a long year, I'm back. Love you all.

I would like to remind you that everything written on my blog is ORIGINAL. And by ORIGINAL, it means that none of these are copied from any other websites except for two posts that I had mentioned in its own post, Orion and Amanda Todd.

You might have read some of my writings here and there, but note this. It will never be the same. Only hypocrites will want to accuse me of copying because everybody learn knowledge from people and thus knowledge is passed from age to age, or you can say, copied. But that's knowledge. You need to copy it to gain it. Or gain it and recopy it to pass it to someone else. I'm very glad to declare that I have done no reference while writing this post. It is 100% straight from my brain.

Okay so let's start with the topic.

Water For People, Water By People.

The basic informations of water are these. It is made up of molecules, each molecule containing two hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom. Water can be existing in three forms, solid, liquid and gas. Water has a boiling point of 100°C, and a freezing and melting point of 0°C, on one condition, that is, it being pure water. Or you can say, distilled water.

Water helps the world to live. Water is the condition for the world to live. Do you agree? No? Try surviving without water. That's a challenge. Try, try, try. Try as you may, without water, you will cease to exist.

Take a desert for an example. If you say the nomads live without water, I can tell you that you are wrong. Why so? There are oasis in the deserts. And the nomads, they find them, and they live there. In the oasis, there will always be floras and faunas, because for them, a place with water is heaven, and a place without water is hell. So is water for people.

People need water to survive. Take Africa for an example. The mass of people that die there every single day is intriguing, horrifying, and makes us think. It makes us think of the reasons why the deaths happen. One of the major reasons is the lack of water. Cast your eyes on the rural areas of Africa. You won't see deserts, but you will see wastelands. That is what I call it. A dry, hard, wasteland. The ground yellow and hard with hardly any plant growing on it, the vast land stretching far and wide, all dry. Have you seen any touching pictures with African children and a stream? No. You only see them, hungry, starved, and thirsty, with their lives hanging onto a thread. Even the little water they have aren't clean water. Water, people, they need water!

So you see that water is important for survival. I have heard that without food, you can survive for seven days without dying but without water, you may only survive for three days. I do not know whether that is completely true as there will always be exceptions, and I would not like to experiment it for it is a matter of life and death. But there is a logical theory behind it. If you are a biology student, you get what I mean, but if you are not, I'm going to explain it now.

Water is in every part of humans' body. Our body needs 70 percent of water in order to work properly. Every cell contains water because water is used for metabolism, frankly, every single process in the body needs water. We lose water with things we do such as sweating and urinating. So, we need to drink water to replenish our stock of water in our bodies. Even if we do not do so, water will still go out of our bodies because we need to excrete. The body's function is to make us remain healthy and to make us healthy the body will excrete toxins, and that needs water. Imagine excretion of toxics without water. I bet the toxics will get stuck, not get out, because of no water to smooth its way out.

If there is no continuance of water replenishing, the cells will contract. When it contracts until it cannot contract anymore, it will go through a process called crenation. Then, it will die. Do you want to know how it happens? It is easy. Take a balloon and fill it with water. Then, release the water bit by bit. You will see the balloon getting smaller, and in the end, flat with no water. Cells are a bit more complicated than no water, though. Cells die when it has not enough water. Now look at this matter again. A human body is made up of more than a billion cells. Cells form tissues, tissues form organs, organs form systems, and a combination of systems form the body. Every single cell needs water. Without water, they die.

Now, imagine all the cells dying at the same time.

You get the image, right? Now again, look at this. The whole world is alive because of living things and because of humans that run the world. Living things are made up of cells. Without water, cells die. Without water, living things die. Without water, humans die.

Now, imagine every living thing and human dead because of no water.

How horrifying it is if water does not exist! Living things move. Without movement, the Earth is a dead planet. What about the electronic gadgets? They move. Yes, they do. But have you ever heard of maintenance? They need maintenance in order to move forever. Yet you know that maintenance is made by humans. And when all is dead, no one is there to do the maintenance. One by one, they would get broken and fail to work. They would rust, and they would cease to exist. In short, nothing is forever without water. No light except for the sun. No life. A gray, dark world with no life.

I have been pressuring that water is important for survival and life. Now, I will talk about how water is important to give us a good life.

Water is used in daily life. Aside from providing the body's needs, water is used to clean everything from our hands to the floormat that hasn't been washed for years. Water is used to water plants so that when they grow, they will bear fruit for our food, or they will bear flowers that eases the eyes of the beholders. Water is used to retain the life of animals, so that none of them would die of the lack of water, and so that they will become fattened and served as a dish on the table. Water is used for the generation of hydroelectricity. Water is used in waterparks to provide fun for people. Water is the habitat of fishes and coral reefs. Basically, everything needs water. Water, is the definition of a balanced ecosystem.

However, people do not fully appreciate the water that God has given us. Somehow, no matter whether it is intended or not, people manage to pollute water. We do not have any idea on how precious water is, and we never had thought about what if there will be no more clean water in this world. We take water for granted, as we have never went through trouble for water, or we forget about the trouble they went through for water. We, as humans of the world are too blinded by money to care about the quality of water. We think that we will always have clean water forever.

Take agriculture for an example. Agriculture is a major earning business because people's food comes from plants. The agriculture companies think of how to solve their productivity problem to gain more money everyday. They think, but not really, because they only take short cuts and never care about other things except of their own greed. The short cuts are giving the plants chemical fertilisers and poisonous and toxic pesticides so that they could grow fast, well, and without the disturbance of pests. And when they do so, the harmful chemical substances goes through the soil and to water sources, polluting them and endangering the marine life and also himans indirectly when people buy the marine animals.  They could have done anything other than destroying clean water sources but they did not. And they will not, for their eyes are blinded.

The same goes to the factories which produce toxins and take the shortcut to get rid of them by dumping them into rivers. Even people who live in housing areas, they dump their rubbish into the river. People who are reading this, if you do the action that I mentioned earlier, I would like to ask you, do you honestly think that throwing rubbish into the river means a successful way of getting rid of them? Do you not know that this will only lead to the jamming of flowing water besides polluting it? Even if the rubbish flows to the sea, the turtles will mistake them for jellyfishes and eat them and die, causing the extinction of turtlekind, besides polluting the sea.

Thus, water sources decrease each and every year drastically. There are hardly anymore clean rivers and seas, and one day, there might be no more clean water for all of us. On that day, I believe that no matter how far menkind try to clean the water up, the water will only be too polluted to be cleansed and people will just have to accept how it is and drink to their deaths.


If you're reading this and you swear that you're not this kind of people, then I thank you, and please continue and send this link to every other person in this world and pass the message, water is important for people, water should be preserved by people.

If you're reading this and you are this kind of people, then I beg you, do change for the sake of our future generations, and pass the message around too.

I hope my efforts are not useless, and that I can wake people up from their blinded universe, and start to think for others and themselves.

Thank you.

THE ORION CONSTELLATION

Hi I'm Ruth

THE ORION CONSTELLATION

For other uses, see Orion (disambiguation).

Orion

Constellation
List of stars in Orion
Abbreviation	Ori
Genitive	Orionis
Pronunciation	/ɒˈraɪ.ən/
Symbolism	Orion, the Hunter
Right ascension	5
Declination	+5
Family	Orion
Quadrant	NQ1
Area	594 sq. deg. (26th)
Main stars	7
Bayer/Flamsteed stars	81
Stars with planets	10
Stars brighter than 3.00m	8
Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly)	8
Brightest star	Rigel (β Ori) (0.12m)
Nearest star	GJ 3379 (17.51 ly, 5.37 pc)
Messier objects	3
Meteor showers	Orionids Chi Orionids
Bordering constellations	Gemini Taurus Eridanus Lepus Monoceros
Visible at latitudes between +85° and −75°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month ofJanuary. Click on to see large image

Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky.^[1] It was named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars areRigel (Beta Orionis) and Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), a blue-white and a red supergiant, respectively.

History and mythology

Star formation in the constellation Orion as photographed in infrared byNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately 32,000 to 38,000 years ago.^[2][3][4] The distinctive pattern of Orion has been recognized in numerous cultures around the world, and many myths have been associated with it. It has also been used as a symbol in the modern world.

Ancient Near East

The Babylonian star catalogues of the Late Bronze Age name Orion ^MULSIPA.ZI.AN.NA,^{[note 1]} "The Heavenly Shepherd" or "True Shepherd of Anu" - Anu being the chief god of the heavenly realms.^[5] The Babylonian constellation was sacred to Papshukal andNinshubur, both minor gods fulfilling the role of 'messenger to the gods'. Papshukal was closely associated with the figure of a walking bird on Babylonian boundary stones, and on the star map the figure of the Rooster was located below and behind the figure of the True Shepherd—both constellations represent the herald of the gods, in his bird and human forms respectively.^[6]

In ancient Egypt, the stars of Orion were regarded as a god, called Sah. Because Orion rises before Sirius, the star whose heliacal rising was the basis for the Solar Egyptian calendar, Sah was closely linked with Sopdet, the goddess who personified Sirius. The god Sopdu was said to be the son of Sah and Sopdet. Sah was syncretized with Osiris, while Sopdet was syncretized with Osiris' mythological wife, Isis. In the Pyramid Texts, from the 24th and 23rd centuries BC, Sah was one of many gods whose form the deadpharaoh was said to take in the afterlife.^[7]

The Armenians identified their legendary patriarch and founder Hayk with Orion. Hayk is also the name of the Orion constellation in the Armenian translation of the Bible.^[8]

The Bible mentions Orion three times, naming it "Kesil" (כסיל, literally - fool). Though, this name perhaps is etymologically connected with "Kislev", the name for the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar (i.e. November–December), which, in turn, may derive from the Hebrew root K-S-L as in the words "kesel, kisla" (כֵּסֶל, כִּסְלָה, hope, positiveness), i.e. hope for winter rains.): Job 9:9 ("He is the maker of the Bear and Orion"), Job 38:31 ("Can you loosen Orion's belt?"), and Amos 5:8 ("He who made the Pleiades and Orion").

In ancient Aram, the constellation was known as N^ephîlā′, the Nephilim may have been Orion's descendants.^[9]

Greco-Roman antiquity

Main article: Orion (mythology)

Orion in the 9th century Leiden Aratea

Orion's current name derives from Greek mythology, in which Orion was a gigantic, supernaturally strong hunter of ancient times,^[10]born to Euryale, a Gorgon, and Poseidon (Neptune), god of the sea in the Graeco-Roman tradition. One myth recounts Gaia's rage at Orion, who dared to say that he would kill every animal on the planet. The angry goddess tried to dispatch Orion with a scorpion. This is given as the reason that the constellations of Scorpius and Orion are never in the sky at the same time. However, Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, revived Orion with an antidote. This is said to be the reason that the constellation of Ophiuchus stands midway between the Scorpion and the Hunter in the sky.^[11]

The constellation is mentioned in Horace's Odes (Ode 3.27.18), Homer's Odyssey (Book 5, line 283) and Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid (Book 1, line 535)

Middle East

In medieval Muslim astronomy, Orion was known as al-jabbar, "the giant".^[12] Orion's sixth brightest star, Saiph, is named from the Arabic,saif al-jabbar, meaning "sword of the giant".^[13]

East Asian antiquity

In China, Orion was one of the 28 lunar mansions Sieu (Xiu) （宿）. It is known as Shen （參）, literally meaning "three", for the stars of Orion's Belt. (See Chinese constellations)

The Chinese character 參 (pinyin shēn) originally meant the constellation Orion (Chinese: 參宿; pinyin: shēnxiù); its Shang dynastyversion, over three millennia old, contains at the top a representation of the three stars of Orion's belt atop a man's head (the bottom portion representing the sound of the word was added later).^[14]

The Rig Veda refers to the Orion Constellation as Mriga (The Deer).^[15] It is said that two bright stars in the front and two bright stars in the rear are The hunting dogs, the one comparatively less bright star in the middle and ahead of two front dogs is The hunter and three aligned bright stars are in the middle of all four hunting dogs is The Deer (The Mriga) and three little aligned but less brighter stars is The Baby Deer. The Mriga means Deer, locally known as Harnu in folk parlance. There are many folk songs narrating the Harnu. The Malaycalled Orion' Belt Bintang Tiga Beradik (the "Three Brother Star").^{[citation needed]}

European folklore

Constellation Orion as it can be seen by the naked eye

Constellation Orion with the major stars labelled

In old Hungarian tradition, "Orion" is known as (magic) Archer (Íjász), or Reaper (Kaszás). In recently rediscovered myths he is called Nimrod(Hungarian "Nimród"), the greatest hunter, father of the twins "Hunor" and "Magor". The "π" and "o" stars (on upper right) form together the reflex bow or the lifted scythe. In other Hungarian traditions, "Orion's belt" is known as "Judge's stick" (Bírópálca).^[16]

In Scandinavian tradition, "Orion's belt" was known as Frigg's Distaff (friggerock) or Freyja's distaff.^[17]

The Finns call the Orion's belt and the stars below it as Väinämöisen viikate (Väinämöinen's scythe).^[18] Another name for the asterism of Alnilam, Alnitak and Mintaka is Väinämöisen vyö' (Väinämöinen's Belt) and the stars "hanging" from the belt as Kalevanmiekka (Kaleva's sword).

In Siberia, the Chukchi people see Orion as a hunter; an arrow he has shot is represented by Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri), with the same figure as other Western depictions.^[19]

Americas

The Seri people of northwestern Mexico call the three stars in the belt of Orion Hapj (a name denoting a hunter) which consists of three stars: Hap(mule deer), Haamoja (pronghorn), and Mojet (bighorn sheep). Hap is in the middle and has been shot by the hunter; its blood has dripped ontoTiburón Island.^[20]

The same three stars are known in Spain and most of Latin America as "Las tres Marías" (Spanish for "The Three Marys"). In Puerto Rico, the three stars are known as the "Los Tres Reyes Magos" (Spanish for The three Wise Men).^[21]

The Ojibwa (Chippewa) Native Americans call this constellation Kabibona'kan, the Winter Maker, as its presence in the night sky heralds winter.^{[citation needed]}

To the Lakota Native Americans, Tayamnicankhu (Orion’s Belt) is the spine of a bison. The great rectangle of Orion are the bison's ribs; the Pleiades star cluster in nearby Taurus is the bison’s head; and Sirius in Canis Major, known as Tayamnisinte, is its tail.

Contemporary symbolism

The imagery of the belt and sword has found its way into popular western culture, for example in the form of the shoulder insignia of the27th Infantry Division of the United States Army during both World Wars, probably owing to a pun on the name of the division's first commander, Major General John F. O'Ryan.^{[citation needed]}

The defunct film distribution company Orion Pictures used the constellation as its logo.^{[citation needed]}

In fiction

In J. R. R. Tolkien's mythology surrounding Middle-earth, Orion is known as Menelvagor, which is Sindarin for "The Swordsman in the Sky."^[22]

In the movie Blade Runner, the dying replicant Roy Batty introspectively delivers his "Tears in Rain" soliloquy:

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain. Time... to die...

In the sci-fi comedy Men In Black, the last words of a dying alien disguised as a human were 'To prevent war, the Galaxy is on Orion's belt'. It was later revealed that 'Orion's belt' referred to the collar of a cat named 'Orion'.

In the sci-fi television series Haven, the Orionid meteor shower is known as the Hunter Meteor Shower. It comes to Haven once every twenty-seven years when the Barn, a space between two worlds, comes to take the mysterious woman away. When the Barn leaves, the Hunter passes safely overhead and The Troubles end, making the town of Haven a haven for the Troubled again.

Depictions

In artistic renderings, the surrounding constellations are sometimes related to Orion: he is depicted standing next to the river Eridanus with his two hunting dogs Canis Major andCanis Minor, fighting Taurus He is sometimes depicted hunting Lepus the hare. He also sometimes is depicted to have a lion's hide in his hand.

There are alternative ways to visualise Orion. From the Southern Hemisphere, Orion is oriented south-upward, and the belt and sword are sometimes called the saucepan or pot in Australia and New Zealand. Orion's Belt is called Drie Konings (Three Kings) or the Drie Susters (Three Sisters) by Afrikaans speakers in South Africa^[23] and are referred to asles Trois Rois (the Three Kings) in Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin (1866). The appellation Driekoningen (the Three Kings) is also often found in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch star charts and seaman's guides. The same three stars are known in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines as "Las Tres Marías" (The Three Marys), and as "Los Tres Reyes Magos" (The three Wise Men) in Puerto Rico.^[21]

Even traditional depictions of Orion have varied greatly. Cicero drew Orion in a similar fashion to the modern depiction. The Hunter held an unidentified animal skin aloft in his right hand; his hand was represented by Omicron² Orionis and the skin was represented by the 5 stars designated Pi Orionis. Kappa and Beta Orionis represented his left and right knees, while Eta and Lambda Leporis were his left and right feet, respectively. As in the modern depiction, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta represented his belt. His left shoulder was represented by Alpha Orionis, and Mu Orionis made up his left arm. Lambda Orionis was his head and Gamma, his right shoulder. The depiction of Hyginus was similar to that of Cicero, though the two differed in a few important areas. Cicero's animal skin became Hyginus's shield (Omicron and Pi Orionis), and instead of an arm marked out by Mu Orionis, he holds a club (Chi Orionis). His right leg is represented by Theta Orionis and his left leg is represented by Lambda, Mu, and Epsilon Leporis. Further Western European and Arabic depictions have followed these two models.^[19]

Characteristics

Orion is bordered by Taurus to the northwest, Eridanus to the southwest, Lepus to the south, Monoceros to the east, and Gemini to the northeast. Covering 594 square degrees, Orion ranks twenty-sixth of the 88 constellations in size. The constellation boundaries, as set by Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a polygon of 26 sides. In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between 04^h 43.3^m and 06^h 25.5^m, while the declination coordinates are between 22.87° and −10.97°.^[24]The constellation's three-letter abbreviation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is "Ori".^[25]

Orion is most visible in the evening sky from January to March,^[26] winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and summer in the Southern Hemisphere. In the tropics (less than about 8° from the equator), the constellation transits at the zenith.

In the period May–July (summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere), Orion is in the daytime sky and thus not visible at most latitudes. However, for much of Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere's winter months, the Sun is below the horizon even at midday. Stars (and thus Orion) are then visible at twilight for a few hours around local noon, low in the North. At the same time of day at the South Pole itself (Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station), Rigel is only 8° above the horizon, and the Belt sweeps just along it. In the Southern Hemisphere's summer months, when Orion is normally visible in the night sky, the constellation is actually not visible in Antarctica because the sun does not set at that time of year south of the Antarctic Circle.^[27][28]

In countries close to the equator (e.g. Kenya, Indonesia, Colombia, Ecuador), Orion appears overhead in December around midnight and in the February evening sky.

Navigational aid

Using Orion to find stars in neighbor constellations

Orion is very useful as an aid to locating other stars. By extending the line of the Belt southeastward, Sirius (α CMa) can be found; northwestward, Aldebaran (α Tau). A line eastward across the two shoulders indicates the direction of Procyon (α CMi). A line from Rigelthrough Betelgeuse points to Castor and Pollux (α Gem and β Gem). Additionally, Rigel is part of the Winter Circle. Sirius and Procyon, which may be located from Orion by following imaginary lines (see map), also are points in both the Winter Triangle and the Circle.^[29][30]

Major features

See also: List of stars in Orion

Orion as depicted inUrania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825

Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Saiph—form a large roughly rectangular shape, in the centre of which lie the three stars of Orion's Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Coincidentally, these seven stars are among the most distant that can easily be seen with the naked eye. Descending from the 'belt' is a smaller line of three stars (the middle of which is in fact not a star but the Orion Nebula), known as the hunter's 'sword'.

Many of the stars are luminous hot blue supergiants, with the stars of the belt and sword forming the Orion OB1 Association. Standing out by its red hue, Betelgeuse may nevertheless be a runaway member of the same group.

Stars

• Betelgeuse, alternatively by its Bayer designation Alpha Orionis, is a massive M-type red supergiant star nearing the end of its life. When it explodes it will even be visible during the day. It is the second brightest star in Orion, and is a semiregular variable star.^[31] It serves as the "right shoulder" of the hunter it represents (assuming that he is facing the observer), and is the eighth brightest star in the night sky.^[32]

• Rigel, which is also known as Beta Orionis, is a B-type blue supergiant that is the sixth brightest star in the night sky. Similar to Betelgeuse, Rigel is fusing heavy elements in its core and will pass its supergiant stage soon (on an astronomical timescale), either collapsing in the case of a supernova or shedding its outer layers and turning into a white dwarf. It serves as the left foot of Orion, the hunter.^[33]

• Bellatrix was designated Gamma Orionis by Johann Bayer, but is known colloquially as the "Amazon Star". It is the twenty-seventh brightest star in the night sky.^[34] Bellatrix is considered a B-type blue giant, though it is too small to explode in a supernova. Bellatrix's luminosity is derived from its high temperature rather than its radius,^[35] a factor that defines Betelgeuse.^[31] Bellatrix serves as Orion's left shoulder.^[35]

• Mintaka garnered the name Delta Orionis from Bayer, even though it is the faintest of the three stars in Orion's Belt.^[36] Its name means "the belt".^[30] It is a multiple star system, composed of a large B-type blue giant and a more massive O-type white star. The Mintaka system constitutes an eclipsing binary variable star, where the eclipse of one star over the other creates a dip in brightness. Mintaka is the westernmost of the three stars of Orion's Belt,^[36] as well as the northernmost.^[30]

Orion constellation map

• Alnilam is designated Epsilon Orionis, a consequence of Bayer's wish to name the three stars in Orion's Belt (from north to south) in alphabetical order.^[37] Also called Al Nathin, Alnilam is named for the Arabic phrase meaning "string of pearls".^[30] Alnilam is a B-typeblue supergiant; despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun as Mintaka and Alnitak, the other two belt stars, its luminosity makes it nearly equal in magnitude. Alnilam is losing mass quickly, a consequence of its size; it is approximately four million years old.^[37]

• Alnitak, meaning "the girdle",^[30] was designated Zeta Orionis by Bayer, and is the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. It is a triple starsome 800 light years distant, with the primary star being a hot blue supergiant and the brightest class O star in the night sky.

• Saiph was designated Kappa Orionis by Bayer, and serves as Orion's right foot. It is of a similar distance and size to Rigel, but appears much fainter, as its hot surface temperature (46,000 °F or 26,000 °C) causes it to emit most of its light in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.

Of the lesser stars, Meissa (or Lambda Orionis) forms Orion's head, whilst Hatsya (or Iota Orionis) forms the tip of Orion's sword. Iota Orionis is also called Nair al-Saif, Arabic for "the brightest in the sword".^[30]

Proper Name	Solar Radii	Apparent Magnitude	~Distance (L Yrs)
Betelgeuse	667	0.43	643
Rigel	78	0.18	772
Bellatrix	7.0	1.62	243
Mintaka	?	2.23 (3.2/3.3) / 6.85 / 14.0	900
Alnilam	26	1.68	1359
Alnitak	20	1.70/~4/4.21	800
Saiph	11	2.06	724

Belt

Main article: Orion's Belt

Orion's Belt

Closeup Image of Orion's Belt

Orion's Belt or The Belt of Orion is an asterism within the constellation. It consists of the three bright stars Zeta (Alnitak), Epsilon (Alnilam), and Delta (Mintaka). Alnitak is around 800 light years away from earth and is 100,000 times more luminous than the Sun; much of its radiation is in the ultraviolet range, which the human eye cannot see.^[38] Alnilam is approximately 1340 light years away from Earth, shines with magnitude 1.70, and with ultraviolet light is 375,000 times more luminous than the Sun.^[37] Mintaka is 915 light years away and shines with magnitude 2.21. It is 90,000 times more luminous than the Sun and is a double star: the two orbit each other every 5.73 days.^[36]Looking for Orion's Belt in the night sky is the easiest way to locate the constellation. In the Northern Hemisphere, Orion's Belt is best visible in the night sky during the month of January around 9:00 pm, when it is approximately around the local meridian.^[1]

Just southwest of Alnitak lies Sigma Orionis, a multiple star system composed of five stars that have a combined apparent magnitude of 3.7 and lying 1150 light years distant. Southwest of Mintaka lies the quadruple star Eta Orionis.

Head

Three stars compose a small triangle that marks the head. The apex is marked by Meissa (Lambda Orionis), a hot blue giant of spectral type O8 III and apparent magnitude 3.54, which lies some 1100 light years distant. Phi-1 and Phi-2 Orionis make up the base. Also nearby is the very young star FU Orionis.

North Arrow

Together the 'Alnitak, Alnilam, & Mintaka', the 'M42, M43' at the lower end form the tail of an arrow while 'Alnilam' form the head of the arrow. All together form an arrow that always points 'NORTH'. Therefore, it is used as navigational guide at night especially in the Sahara desert where there are not many natural signs.

Club

Stretching north from Betelgeuse are the stars that make up Orion's club. Mu Orionis marks the elbow, Nu and Xi mark the handle of the club, and Chi¹ and Chi² mark the end of the club. Just east of Chi¹ is the Mira-type variable red giant U Orionis.

Shield

West from Bellatrix lie six stars all designated Pi Orionis (π¹ Ori, π² Ori, π³ Ori, π⁴ Ori, π⁵ Ori and π⁶ Ori) which make up Orion's shield.

Meteor showers

Around 20 October each year the Orionid meteor shower (Orionids) reaches its peak. Coming from the border with the constellation Gemini as many as 20 meteors per hour can be seen. The shower's parent body is Halley's Comet.^[39]

Deep-sky objects

This view brings out many fainter features, such asBarnards loop

Hanging from Orion's belt is his sword, consisting of the multiple stars θ1 and θ2 Orionis, called the Trapezium and the Orion Nebula (M42). This is a spectacular object that can be clearly identified with the naked eye as something other than a star. Using binoculars, its clouds of nascent stars, luminous gas, and dust can be observed. The Trapezium cluster has many newborn stars, including several brown dwarfs, all of which are at an approximate distance of 1,500 light-years. Named for the four bright stars that form a trapezoid, it is largely illuminated by the brightest stars, which are only a few hundred thousand years old. Observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory show both the extreme temperatures of the main stars—up to 60,000 Kelvin—and the star forming regions still extant in the surrounding nebula.^[40]

M78 (NGC 2068) is a nebula in Orion. With an overall magnitude of 8.0, it is significantly dimmer than the Great Orion Nebula that lies to its south; however, it is at approximately the same distance, at 1600 light-years from Earth. It can easily be mistaken for a comet in the eyepiece of a telescope. M78 is associated with the variable star V351 Orionis, whose magnitude changes are visible in very short periods of time.^[41] Another fairly bright nebula in Orion is NGC 1999, also close to the Great Orion Nebula. It has an integrated magnitude of 10.5 and is 1500 light-years from Earth. The variable star V380 Orionis is embedded in NGC 1999.^[42]

Another famous nebula is IC 434, the Horsehead Nebula, near ζ Orionis. It contains a dark dust cloud whose shape gives the nebula its name.

NGC 2174 is an emission nebula located 6400 light-years from Earth.

Besides these nebulae, surveying Orion with a small telescope will reveal a wealth of interesting deep-sky objects, including M43, M78, as well as multiple stars including Iota Orionis and Sigma Orionis. A larger telescope may reveal objects such as Barnard's Loop and the Flame Nebula(NGC 2024), as well as fainter and tighter multiple stars and nebulae.

All of these nebulae are part of the larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, which is located approximately 1,500 light-years away and is hundreds of light-years across. It is one of the most intense regions of stellar formation visible within our galaxy.

Future

Orion is located on the celestial equator, but it will not always be so located due to the effects of precession of the Earth's axis. Orion lies well south of the ecliptic, and it only happens to lie on the celestial equator because the point on the ecliptic that corresponds to the June solstice is close to the border of Gemini and Taurus, to the north of Orion. Precession will eventually carry Orion further south, and by AD 14000 Orion will be far enough south that it will become invisible from the latitude of Great Britain.^[43]

Further in the future, Orion's stars will gradually move away from the constellation due to proper motion. However, Orion's brightest stars all lie at a large distance from the Earth on an astronomical scale—much farther away than Sirius, for example. Orion will still be recognizable long after most of the other constellations—composed of relatively nearby stars—have distorted into new configurations, with the exception of a few of its stars eventually exploding as supernovae, for example Betelgeuse, which is predicted to explode sometime in the next million years.^[44]

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