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Old 07-11-2012, 01:03 AM
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Octane (Humayun)
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If you look at enough stars, you'll make out all sorts of shapes and what not.

A lot of them are referred to as asterisms. The Southern Cross is an asterism in itself.

In a few hundred (or thousand) years, the stars would have moved further apart (or closer) to each other, and the Southern Cross, as we know it today, will cease to exist.

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