The greek rendering of ursa major is a big, chubby bear with a big, bushy tail. But bears don't have tails. So iit's an anatomically forced addition to the species simply because they were connecting the dots. A zeus came am swooping down to save the bears from hera. And so he grabbed the bears by the only thing he could their short tails, and swung em around to get enough momentum to yo whizz them up into the cosmos. That stretched out their tails. Anyways, those are those silly planetarium am ales that we tell about the bears tails. Many of those consolations that we think of as
What does the night’s sky look like for Indigenous peoples? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Negin Farsad take a deep dive into the constellation map of Indigenous skies with professor Annette Lee.
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