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what's up for me constellation stories

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hello and welcome I'm Jane Houston Jones

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at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

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Pasadena California before artificial

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lights were common many cultures saw

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pictures in the way stars were arranged

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in the night sky the earliest star

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catalogues are over 6,000 years old but

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the stories and pictures are even older

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cave paintings in southwest France show

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a great bull and dots which look like

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what we call the Pleiades and Heidi star

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clusters these paintings go back over

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15,000 years in Australia many

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aboriginal groups see the Dark Nebula

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next to the Southern Cross constellation

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as the head of the great flightless bird

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the EMU his neck body and legs are

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formed from dust lanes in the Milky Way

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great mythology tells of a Ryan the

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hunter but other cultures have their own

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stories and star shapes in Australia

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Orion appears upside down the belt stars

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of Orion represent three brothers of the

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kingfish clan in a traditional

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Australian tale they were lifted to the

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sky for breaking the law the ajooba a

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and Creed First Nations of manitoba

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canada see this group of stars as Nana

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bush or west ok check who is known for

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his teaching and trickster abilities

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here he appears as the shapeshifter mr.

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Pugh the giant here he is pointing to

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the hole in the sky the cluster we know

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as the Pleiades his outstretched arm is

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represented by the star Aldebaran the

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Cree people called the Pleiades stars

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Matt udasin a SUNYAC the sweat lodge

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rocks the constellation matteson the

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sweat lodge is part of the legend of

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health stone child was instructed to

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build a domed sweat lodge over the sweat

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lodge rocks

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when heated the spirits of the rocks are

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released the milky way is called the

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summer birds path by the Cree because it

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traces the path of migratory birds the

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creasing Niska the goose flying down the

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summer birds path others see this

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constellation as Cygnus the Swan future

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generations will have a hard time seeing

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the constellations described in our

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legends because the lights of modern

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cities blot out the Stars so when you

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visit our parks and open spaces look up

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if you are young ask the elders in your

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family about stories they learned about

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the night sky you just might uncover

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star tales and legends that otherwise

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would be lost you can see NASA's images

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of stars planets constellations and more

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at photo journal JPL nasa gov and you

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can learn more about nasa missions at