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Tales of the North Star: An origin story and time-domain astrophysics

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 by admin

The North Star is one of the most important stars in the northern sky to almost all peoples, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. In so-called Canada and the United States, many Indigenous peoples told stories about the North Star and their relationship with that star. One such story comes from the Paiute peoples of the so-called western…

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