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Exploring Earth’s Evil Twin

HISTORY This Week

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The Mayan Astronomer Priests Know More About Venus Than We Do Today

In ancient Mesoamerica, stars could be sacred. The Mayan astronomer priests knew more about Venus than a lot of modern astronomers do today. Ancient astronomers knew these are very strange stars. They don't stay fixed in place. So they earned the name Planets.

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