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Adding more stars
Another astronomer named Claudious Ptolemaeus who was around the same time as Hipparchus used Hipparchu's studies and the idea of epicycles he expanded on Hipparchus star catologe bringing it up to 1,022 stars. -
Jan 1, 1572
In 1572
Tycho Brahe who was 26 at the time discoverd a new star which was a nova, it is now believed to have been a supernova. -
In 1584...
In 1584 Girodana Bruno said that the stars were other objects like our sun but they were further away. -
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History of Stars
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In 1838...
The first measurement of distance to star was made by Friedrich Bessell using the parallax technique-61 cygnus was measure to be 11.4 light years away. -
In 129 BC
In 129 Bc Hipparchus created the first star catologe he was an astronomer from 147 to 127 BC. The catologe listed 850 different stars
