A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star chart in the ... in the heavens. Constellations were seen by the ...

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The smaller constellation Leo Minor lies to the upper right (north) of Leo in the west this evening. Leo Minor appears ...

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I’ve been finding my way around the night sky with a star map for more than six decades and have always found it quite easy. And then in 1994, I visited ...

Chinese scientists analyzed astronomer Shi Shen’s record of the stars and found it to predate previously known Greek ...

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Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their ... would be considered the world's oldest star chart. Researchers at the National Astronomical ...