from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars

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

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