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Medieval monks hid a lost star map and scientists are decoding it now

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...

SLAC scientists use X-rays to search for the world’s oldest star map

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

Scientists Deciphered Humanity’s Earliest Star Map. It Had Literally Been Erased From History.

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...
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Back to the map: Stars & constellations of the Northern Hemisphere

We connected with Florian Winkler to learn how he created such an elegant and informative map that invites exploration.
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Ancient Greek Star Map Revealed by X-Rays on Erased Manuscript linked to Hipparchus

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...