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It was impossible to track down these ancient stars until recently. Khyati Malhan and Hans-Walter Rix of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy combined the capabilities of two leading galactic ...

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The facility tracked the sun's movements closely. An apparent record-breaking ancient astronomy "observatory," complete with a sundial, was uncovered recently during a temple dig in the old ...

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