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The left corner of the square, meanwhile, is the head of Andromeda, who, according to legend, Perseus was saving from the leviathan Cetus (also called the Whale).
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Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Squid in the Whale Spiral galaxy Messier 77, also called the Squid Galaxy, sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale).
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
Jacob Turcotte/Staff Today, volunteer wardens with the Cetus Research & Conservation Society Straitwatch program monitor the reserve and gather population data on the whales and their pods.
—Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
The stars shown in the sky chart belong to faint constellations including Cetus, Aries, Triangulum and Pisces.
—Rod Nerdahl, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Squid in the Whale Spiral galaxy Messier 77, also called the Squid Galaxy, sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale).
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
Jacob Turcotte/Staff Today, volunteer wardens with the Cetus Research & Conservation Society Straitwatch program monitor the reserve and gather population data on the whales and their pods.
—Jules Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2024
The stars shown in the sky chart belong to faint constellations including Cetus, Aries, Triangulum and Pisces.
—Rod Nerdahl, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
To catch it at its brightest, use a pair of binoculars or a small telescope and look toward the constellation Cetus in the evenings up to and after the 17th.
—Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 30 June 2023
In 1983, Mullis, then a chemist with the biotech company Cetus, came up with a way to isolate tiny stretches of a few hundred nucleotides along a DNA strand and replicate them millions of times over, so they could easily be read by scientists.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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“Cetus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cetus. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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Cetus
noun
Ce·tus
ˈsēt-əs 
: a group of stars seen above the equator and south of Pisces and Aries
Etymology
Latin, literally, "whale"
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