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Columnist Jill Bartelt thinks the splendor of night is hidden by light Jill Bartelt Throughout human history, the night sky has been a source of awe and fascination. Ancient Egyptians often painted stars on sarcophagus lids and on the ceiling of tombs. In Homer’s Iliad, the highly decorated shield of Achilles has images of Orion, the Great Bear, and other constellations. The twelve signs of the Zodiac (Gemini, Leo, etc.) have their roots in Babylonian culture, while the stars we know as Aldebaran, Altair, Deneb, Rigel, and Betelgeuse among many others were named and studied by medieval astronomers from the Islamic world.

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