A Greek star catalog from the dawn of astronomy, revealed

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The squiggles are a poem written in ancient Greek about heavenly phenomena, seen for the first time by human eyes in nearly a millennium and a half.

“There’s an appendix which includes coordinates of the stars discussed in the poem, and then little sketches of the star maps,” says Minhal Gardezi, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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