from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars
Description
Today's Zodiac Constellation is Capricorn.
Early Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy cataloged the stars and used trigonometry. Today's scientists send a million pixel camera far out in space to L2 to catalog almost 2 thousand million stars and celestial objects
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LINKS AND others SOURCES
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellations-by-month/september-constellations/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/47354-fact-sheet
https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/28820-summary














