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| | (18/01/2006) The Celestial Birds of the Southern Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The artworks depict globular clusters, nebulae, and galaxies observed in the birds constellations in the Southern hemisphere. |
 | | Constellations in the southern hemisphere were not observable by the ancient Greeks and were therefore unknown until two Dutch navigators, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, mapped them during their travel down south during the sixteenth century. |
 | | Of the twelve Bayer constellations, Tucana (the toucan), Apus (the bird of paradise), Grus (the crane), Pavo (the peacock), and Phoenix (the firebird) form “the celestial birds” in the southern hemisphere. |
| www.physics.usyd.edu.au /plasma/complex/news/2006/news18_01_06_02.html (879 words) |
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