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The Ancient Greeks knew of the Southern Cross constellation and considered it to be the hind part of the large constellation called Centaurus, named after the Centaur, a mythical creature that was half man half horse.
It is now impossible to see the Southern Cross from Greece. What has changed? The answer is a process called axial precession; this is a slow, steady,
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