Claudius Ptolemy
Occupation
Mathematician, Astronomer, Geographer
Year born
100 AD
Research Areas
Movements of planets and stars, Cartography
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by Joos van Ghent and Pedro Berruguete (1476)
is licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Constellations
Have you ever looked for pictures in the stars at night? Like the sky is a giant dot-to-dot puzzle?
We call groups of stars which form a picture in our imagination, a constellation.
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by Torsten Bronger
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Guess the Constellation
Have you ever looked at the stars at night and imagined pictures in them? Long, long ago, other people did the same! They named groups of stars after animals and characters from their stories.