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What did the night sky look like to the dinosaurs?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Night Sky of the Dinosaurs

Do you think dinosaurs were studying the same night sky as we were? Well, that's an interesting question. I know that the constellations that we see in the sky are not static. The universe is moving. Our solar system is moving with respect to the other stars. It's just happening on a very slow scale. So on the scale of dinosaur 65 million years ago, they probably didn't see the same constellations That we see today. Some stars were likely brighter on the count that the universe hadn't expanded as much.

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