By the time Antony became widely known in 2005 with his Mercury prize-winning second album, I Am a Bird Now, he had spent 15 years in Manhattan as one of a startling, inter-generational constellation of dancers, painters, film-makers, musicians and performance artists, mostly clustered on the Lower East Side.
The album's fourth track, Arabella, has a surrealist quality akin to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (sample lyric: "Her lips are like the galaxy's edge/And a kiss the colour of a constellation falling into place").
Gormley stressed that no alternative constellation of parties heading another government could do any better in the face of the malign global economic forces battering the country.
In addition, unlike the PIRA in 1993, the dissident republican groups are a disparate constellation of forces.
Dr Longmier says the system could allow a constellation of satellites to remain in the correct position relative to one another, move satellites to polar orbit from less-expensive launch insertions or increase an orbit.Surrey Satellite Technology's STRaND-1 also contained a couple of experimental propulsion systems.
Before November's elections they portrayed "Washington"—a constellation embracing the president, the federal government and the pork-ladling, tax-raising, freedom-crushing Congress as a monster that trampled on the people's rights, smothered enterprise with pointless regulation and pauperised future generations by spending money it did not have.
The political constellation also appears much more favourable for reforms: the grand coalition has a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house, and also controls the Bundesrat, the upper house, albeit by a much smaller margin.
It is dubbed, rather unromantically, Kepler 22b.The existence of this planet, which circles a star 600 light-years away, in the constellation of Lyra, had previously been suspected.
Recently, though, they have spotted somewhere that has managed to avoid such a fate.This planet is orbiting a star in the Pegasus constellation some 50 light years away.
Meanwhile, another technology called Bluetooth is about to do the same for the mini-constellation of devices that an individual carries around, connecting them all together wirelessly.This tantalising prospect has launched thousands of breathless headlines since the two technologies were first promoted two years ago.
NASA has proposed a mission, called Constellation-X, that would build on this work by providing detailed pictures of what happens to space-time at the edges of these gravitational chasms.Then there are plans to examine the gravitational wave background, which would show what the universe looked like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
