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It started when people got bored at night and started wondering about the stars they could see at night, and how the Sun and Moon appeared so regularly. A systematic study of these events gradually began, and eventually someone decided to call it astronomy.

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Astronomy was invented like many things, it was useful! People found stars useful to navigation at night. Patterns of stars provided directions and rising stars could be used for time periods and this was critical to the development of agriculture.

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