How to Use Cassiopeia in a Sentence

Cassiopeia

noun
  • Close by, Cassiopeia the Queen and Cepheus the King hang high in the northwest heavens in the early evening.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
  • That steam is the brightest part of the Milky Way band that runs from Sagittarius in the south to the constellation Cassiopeia in the north.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • Just look for the easily visible constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • To find Andromeda, locate the constellation Cassiopeia, which forms a prominent 'M' shape high in the northern sky.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • First locate the constellations Cassiopeia and Andromeda using a handy starfinding astronomy app.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Nov. 2025
  • As the Big Dipper gets lower on the horizon, Cassiopeia gets higher, with both completing one rotation of Polaris every 24 hours.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Meteors whose paths extended backward intersect at a spot near the Perseid-Cassiopeia border not far from the famous Double Cluster in Perseus.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 July 2026
  • The developers have also said that the crew of the Cassiopeia may eventually have to choose between their own survival and the survival of everyone back on Earth, aka the Ellen Ripley dilemma.
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The giant ugly sea monster Cetus was closing in on a beach where Princess Andromeda was chained to a rock by her own parents, Cassiopeia and Cepheus, the king and queen of ancient Ethiopia.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Next, sweep your binoculars between the bright star Navi, which is the middle point in the 'M' or 'W' shape of Cassiopeia and Marfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Sweep with binoculars from the Scorpion's tail in the Scorpius constellation, through the Summer Triangle, and then down to Cassiopeia and Perseus.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • To locate the Double Cluster, first use a smartphone astronomy app to pinpoint the constellation Perseus and nearby Cassiopeia along the band of the Milky Way.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The bubble-like form of the Garlic Nebula lies within the Milky Way some 9,132 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It can be found just 5 degrees away from the bright star Segin in the constellation Cassiopeia — roughly the width of your three middle fingers held at arm's length — which can be found high above the northern horizon around midnight in October.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Constellations close to Polaris like Ursa Major and Minor, as well as Cassiopeia the Queen and Cepheus the King, make a tight daily circle around the North Star.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
  • About 11,000 light-years away from Earth, the supernova Cassiopeia A’s X-rays (seen above) are rendered in blue and purple, while infrared wavelengths are shown in red and white using data from JWST.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • The Milky Way continues here through Auriga, Perseus, and Cassiopeia; the direction of Auriga is towards intergalactic space, exactly opposite the galactic center seen in Sagittarius.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The imagery shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, the dusty nebula NGC 3603, the spiral galaxy Messier 94 and the galaxy cluster ZwCl 0024+1652.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 July 2026

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