![]() ![]() By agreement, today it is each of the 88 areas in which the sky is divided, as well as the group of stars they contain. To explain this astral blunder, we first have to clarify that a constellation is an “apparent” grouping of stars: they seem to be on the same plane, but they are actually at different distances and are not necessarily related to each other. The astrologers, baffled, faced a problem: how to integrate this constellation as a sign of the zodiac. ![]() The ecliptic had actually always passed through that constellation, although the dates change with the centuries. Mitton explained that the ecliptic (the Sun’s apparent annual journey through the heavens) passes through a thirteenth constellation: Ophiuchus – the Latin version of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. In January 1995, Jacqueline Mitton, from the British Royal Astronomical Society, announced in a BBC show that the 12 signs of the zodiac were not only erroneously advanced due to the effects of precession of the Earth, but that they were, in fact, 13. ![]()
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