A Medieval Manuscript Has Revealed the Oldest Known Map of the Stars

Image caption: Researchers used multispectral imaging to reveal the hidden text. Image courtesy of the Museum of the Bible Collection. All rights reserved. © Museum of the Bible, 2021. Article by Sarah Kuta. Smithsonian Magazine – October 24, 2022.

Advanced imaging uncovered part of the Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ long-lost star catalog

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus looked up into the night sky and charted the precise locations of as many stars and other celestial objects as he could see. But historians have always believed his so-called star catalog was lost to the ages; they only know about it from references to it in later texts. Now, researchers believe they’ve located part of the long-lost map of the cosmos in the […]

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