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Ptolemy

Supernova

Black hole

Parallax

Light-year

Polaris (the star)

Copernicus

Brahe, Tycho

Kepler, Johannes

Galileo

Newton, Isaac

Hubble, Edwin

Ursa major
Ursa minor

Orion

Canis major

Cassiopeia

Red giant

White dwarf (not a caucasian little person)

Main-sequence star

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Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology

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Supernova

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the death of a star then a birth of a next

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