Nearly directly overhead between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm for the next two weeks, The Great Square asterism has been seen as many things by various cultures, including a bed, barbeque grill and portal to paradise...
Scheduled air date: 1998 Nov 30-Dec 06
Nearly directly overhead between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm for the next two weeks, The Great
Square asterism has been seen as many things by various cultures, including a bed,
barbeque grill and portal to paradise...
...but today we know it most commonly as part of the constellation Pegasus, an upside-down
winged horse.
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