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How did Aquarius get in the sky?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Ancient astrologers looked up at the night sky and, using a lot of imagination, thought that a bunch of them looked like Aquarius, the water carrier. Other cultures saw the same stars and decided that they saw some different image. Chinese astrologers, for example, saw an army going forth.

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