Pegasus, a very northern constellation for us to make a horse out of it is actually upside down. So we knowingly made an upside down constellation. I can't imagine many cultures in the past would have intentionally assigned a constellation to be upside down unless they had traveled to another hemisphere and then went back and was like, whoa, they see this differently. And Pegasus, the constellation zone, has only room for half the horse. So it's an upside down flying half a horse. Somebody had to think that up. At least it's the front half. That's a bare half of Pegasus. Or if you're on drugs. Yeah. Can't can't imagine the drugs.
Is it time to update the constellations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen dive into astrophysics, folklore, and our ancient connection to the stars with astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Ph.D.
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