Constellation (disambiguation)

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Constellation or Constellations may refer to:

• Constellation, a group of stars
• Constellation Airlines, a defunct Belgian charter airline
• Constellation Brands, a major wine, beer and spirits company
• Constellation diagram, a means of representing a modulation scheme in digital telecommunications
• Constellation Energy, a power generation company
• Constellation Records, a record label
• Con*Stellation, an annual general-interest science fiction convention held in Huntsville, Alabama
• EURion constellation, an anti-counterfeiting scheme
• Lockheed Constellation, a propeller-driven airliner
• Prime constellation, a pattern of prime numbers
• Project Constellation, NASA's current (2007) road map for space exploration and colonization
• Satellite constellation, a group of satellites
• Sun Constellation System, open petascale High Performance Computing (HPC) environment by Sun Microsystems
• Systemic or Family Constellations, a kind of therapeutic methods

In fiction:

• Constellation (film), a 2007 film
• Constellation-class starship, a fictional type of starship from the Star Trek universe

In music:

• "Constellation" (standard), a jazz standard composed by Sonny Stitt
• Constellations, a marching band show performed by Wakefield High School (Raleigh, North Carolina)

In publication:

• Constellations (book), a science fiction anthology
• Constellations (journal), a peer-reviewed sociology journal

In ships:

• GTS Constellation, a Celebrity Cruises ship
• USS Constellation, a series of U.S. Navy ships
• Constellation (yacht), a charter luxury yacht
• Constellation, a former name of cruise ship Salamis Glory
• Constellation, the winning yacht of the America's Cup in 1964

In data communication:

• Constellation diagram, a graphic representation of the symbols used to encode digital data on a communication channel, particularly in phase- or quadrature-amplitude modulation systems