The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope.

Books Received Published: 22 July 1933 (1) Greek Astronomy (2) Early Astronomy and Cosmology: a Reconstruction of the Earliest Cosmic System E. J. WEBB Nature 132, 119–120 (1933) Cite this article ...

Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, illustrated in his observatory in Alexandria, Egypt, was thought to have written the first star catalog. Now researchers have found part of it hidden in a ...

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Researchers believe they may have found a fragment of a long-lost star map compiled by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky ...

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have recently found fragments of the Star Catalogue composed by the Greek astronomer ...

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The Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived around 120 BCE, usually gets credit for discovering the equinoxes and their relationship to the zodiac constellations. But in a controversial new study ...

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