The constellations and the Zodiac are very important parts of astronomy, unfortunately it is mixed with astrology and then viral messes are created such as the one that said that from January 1 a new official calendar for the zodiac signs comes into force because the NASA has included a new, a new zodiac constellation called ophiuchus.
It is true that NASA has remembered that the constellations of the zodiac are 13 and not 12 and it did not remember it this year, but several years ago, but it is false that it would change the zodiac signs on January 1, nor do you have to update the astral chart , so those who believe in astrology can rest assured, they still have the same dates for the horoscope signs, although I warn you that the stars have no influence on your life, personality or future.
There is only one star that influences us and it is the sun, it illuminates us after a storm, it can make us happier with a sunrise or sunset and it can be exciting.
This need to search for something mystical and spiritual dates back tens of thousands of years when humans saw divine beings or forces in the objects of the Cosmos, beings that marked time, the sun marked the days and the moon with its phases indicated longer periods. long, in a work presented very recently on January 5, 2023, what may be the oldest astronomical record in history was discovered,
They already fell that many marks that appear in cave paintings of animals from 20,000 years ago were actually a record of lunar months, with the arrival of agriculture, humans needed to measure time with greater precision, to know when the seasons arrived, when it began the rainy season or the flooding of the rivers,
For this, the wise men of antiquity began to look at which Star was seen on certain days of the year, the ancient Egyptians gave great value to the star Sirius since they discovered that the rise of the Nile River coincided with the heliacal Ortho of Sirius, the Ortho Sirius heliacus, which is the name given to the appearance of a star over the horizon after weeks or months being below the horizon.
The Egyptians also used 36 other stars to measure time at night and, like other world cultures, divided the night sky into constellations, which are areas bounded by stars.
The 2nd century Greek astronomer Ptolemy listed 48, but he could only see those in the northern hemisphere, currently there are 88 constellations, you must understand that constellations are not places in space, they are like windows when it is said that the moon, a planet, a comet, a star or a galaxy are in a certain constellation means that they can be seen if we look in the direction of that window or sector of the sky, but they are not in the same place nor do they have to be related.
The moon is 384,400 kilometers from us, a planet and comet may be hundreds of millions of kilometers away, a star light-years away and a galaxy millions of light-years away, but visually we see them all through the 88 o'clock area. constellation.
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