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| | SPACE.com -- The Night Sky is For the Birds |
 | | There is a swan, an eagle, a dove, a crane, a toucan, a peacock, a bird of paradise and even a mythical phoenix. |
 | | And over toward the south as night falls these late spring evenings is yet another: Corvus, the Crow. |
 | | Composed of nearly two dozen mostly faint stars, this night bird was created in 1776 by a Frenchman, Lemonier, in memory of the voyage to Rodriguez Isle of the famed French astronomer, Alexandre Guy Pingre. |
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