Thread: Pronunciation of star names
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Old 06-01-2014, 03:35 PM
mbaddah (Mo)
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I once read that "Betelgeuse" comes from the arabic "bayt-al-jawz", meaning house of the pair because the Arabs thought it was a binary star.
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