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Beginning in Babylon

astronomers? Who got the systematic study of the night sky started? To answer those questions, first of all we need to narrow their scope. No doubt our very distant ancestors were looking at the night sky and wondering for many millennia, forming patterns among the stars and telling stories about the images they imagined there. They may have used the movements of the night sky to tell the seasons. But for most

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