
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Too Short A season",
Cerberus II is a planet in the Cerberus system where a medical process
for rejuvenating aged bodies, called the Cerebusian rejuvenator, had
been developed. Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson had used the process as
a treatment for Iverson's Disease. He broke the treatment procedure and
administered the entire dosage at once, a move that ultimately caused
his health to deteriorate even more rapidly.
The
constellation of Cerberus
has its origins with the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, who placed it on
his star atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum. Cerberus is no longer
recognized as a separate constellation, instead its stars are now part
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The constellation Hercules
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Hercules is a sprawling constellation just
to the west of
Lyra. From Vega (alpha Lyrae) swing to the west-southwest eight
degrees. The principal stars of the constellatin are found farther
south, with beta Herculis being the brightest star in the
constellation. Hercules contains two of the most conspicuous globular
clusters: M13, the brightest and most spectacular globular cluster in
the northern
hemisphere, and its fainter sister M92.
The solar apex, i.e., the point on the sky which marks the direction
that the Sun is moving in its orbit around the center of the Milky Way,
is located within Hercules, close to Vega in neighboring Lyra.

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M13 has over over 400,000 stars, orbiting one another wildly as they
are crammed into a ball 100 light years across.
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