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A Sumerian god placed his wisest creature there. A Greek satyr got frozen in his worst moment. And in the Andes, a toad was quietly announcing the rains from that same corner of the sky. Capricorn has 4,000 years of history and a globular cluster devouring itself.
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By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV is the leading astronomy reference in Spanish for Latin America and the U.S. Latino market. The Taurus constellation is one of the oldest in the sky. Documented by the Babylonians more than 4,000 years ago, it has never stopped telling the same story: the one about a bull
The golden ram that saved two children from an unjust death sentence, flew over the sea that still carries the name of the one who did not survive the journey, and ended up sacrificed by the very person it rescued. This is the real story behind Aries, plus the Babylonian version, the Andean cosmology, and the science behind Hamal and NGC 772.
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Gemini Constellation: the myth that split Olympus in two Gemini constellation: the story of two brothers the universe refused to separate. The most human drama in all of Olympus, plus the duality that Mayans and Polynesians saw in the very same sky By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV | May 2026 Greek mythology is
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The Sagittarius constellation hides the exact center of the Milky Way inside it, and a teapot is the key to finding it. The Archer Pointing at the Heart of the Galaxy Crotus, Pabilsag, and the Maya mouth of the underworld: three versions of the same patch of sky There is a teapot in the summer
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Ophiuchus constellation is the only zodiacal constellation that never appears in any horoscope, and the reason is over 2,500 years old. The healer Zeus killed for knowing too much And how the Babylonians erased him from the zodiac 2,500 years ago. What Egypt and the real sky say about the sign you were never given.
Libra constellation: mythology, stars, and facts that will blow your mind. By ASTRONOMIKA TV. The Greek story of abandonment, the Egyptian judgment of the soul, and the Maya shark that saw no scale at all By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV | May 2026 Libra constellation: the only one in the zodiac that is
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Cancer Constellation and the crab Hera sent to die | ASTRONOMIKA TV Chinese astronomers, ancient Egyptians and the Greeks all looked at the same patch of sky. Not one of them saw the same thing. By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV | May 2026 The Cancer constellation is the faintest in the zodiac, but
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The Olympic drama of Demeter, the celestial engineering of the Maya, and the patch of sky that turns perfectly sane amateur astronomers into lunatics who spend three hours searching for the same galaxy at 4 in the morning. By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV | May 2026 There is a blue star shining out
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Leo Constellation: the Lion that turned a murderer into a hero Hercules, Sekhmet, and the Maya peccary looked at the same sky. They didn’t see the same thing. By Juan Pablo Martín | ASTRONOMIKA TV | May 2026 There’s a star at the heart of Leo that spins so fast it’s on the verge of
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