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How Stars Get Their Names

For thousands of years, human beings have used the night sky to navigate, keep track of the seasons, and inspire myths and legends. The tradition of naming stars is as old as history itself. Before modern times, however, humans could only name the stars that were visible in the night sky--a tiny fraction of the number of stars we can see today with powerful telescopes. Some stars have beautiful and evocative names, while some stars are designated by unimaginative-sounding groups of numbers and l
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