#ancient star

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Ancient Star - Born of love

The founder is called Bruce, he was born in a poor family, but also have a happy family, father mother and younger brother, he’s mom and dad are farmers, with their bare hands for to him finish university, his younger brother is named baron, after college he was in the same company dedicated work 10 years for his only brother to baron's tuition and living expenses, Because he put his mind on his brother, have never thought about his life.

 When it came time to send his brother off to college and get a job, unfortunately, his dearest brother baron lost his life in an accident. From that time on, there was no more bustle and joy in that happy family. Bruce is a good brother. He loves his younger brother baron very much. Since baron's death, Bruce does not go back at any other time except his younger brother's annual death day, even the most important Spring Festival in China.

 Five years later, Bruce never thought to meet the girl he liked, but the year he was 35, he met his beloved girl Alisa. For 15 years, he had been working very hard in a position, and because of the specificity of his job, he had to be in a long-distance relationship with the girl, and then he married Alisa, and he quit his job for Alisa for 15 years. Alisa was a lively girl who brought a lot of unprecedented joy to Bruce's life, as well as a lot of laughter and change to Bruce's family.

Since Alisa's childhood dream was to start a company of her own, Bruce decided to register a company with the savings of working for more than 10 years. Because Alisa loved ancient love, which was faithful and unchanging, and Alisa loved watching the stars with Bruce at night. So there was their "Ancient Star". Bruce and Alisa later had a daughter and son, One name is Uranus and the other is Venus.

 They hope their company can pass on like stars for a hundred years and bring happiness to every family in the world.

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Mysterious Ancient Star Chart Shows Foreign Skies

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Mysterious Ancient Star Chart Shows Foreign Skies

A star chart carved into the ceiling of an ancient tomb in Japan is believed to be the world’s oldest, and may show the sky as it was seen from China. The Kitora Tomb, located near the village of Asuka in Japan’s Nara Prefecture, is known for gorgeous, colourful paintings at the four cardinal points of the compass. A black tortoise guards the north of the ancient tumulus, which has been standing since the seventh or eighth century. A red phoenix stands at the south, a white tiger at the west and a blue dragon at the east.

The ceiling of the tomb is decorated differently, with a map of the night sky, charting 68 constellations, with the stars picked out in gold leaf. Three concentric circles are drawn with vermilion, showing the movement of celestial objects, one of which is the sun. According to Kazuhiko Miyajima, a professor at Doshisha University who studied the chart after the tomb was discovered in 1998, this makes it possibly the oldest astronomical chart of its kind in the world. It has designations for the horizon, equator and ecliptic circles, as well as recognisable patterns of stars.

While older depictions of the skies have been found in the west (the 17,300-year-old Lascaux cave painting, for example, shows Pleiades, Taurus, Orion and Aldebaran), most do not contain recognisable star patterns, or diagrams of astronomical phenomena.

One thing that has baffled researchers, however, is the area of sky the chart depicts. Researchers Mitsuru Soma, an assistant professor of astronomy at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Tsuko Nakamura, a researcher of modern astronomy with Daito Bunka University’s Institute of Oriental Studies, teamed up with Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties to calculate the location, reports The Asahi Shimbun.

The two researchers worked separately, and determined that the sky as depicted in the Kitora Tomb chart was seen from China, from locations such as modern-day Xi’an and Luoyang. They also determined that the chart showed the sky as it would have appeared several hundred years before the construction of the Kitora Tomb — although they didn’t agree on the number of years. Soma said that it shows the sky as it would have appeared between 240 and 520, while Nakamura said it would have appeared so between 120BC and 40BC.

Miyajima believes differently, extrapolating that the chart shows the sky as it would have appeared in 65BC, either from Pyongyang or Seoul, the capitals of North and South Korea respectively. In his 1999 lecture, he had said that the chart had probably come from Korea, but showed the sky in China.

Source : Cnet

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Ancient Star Raises Prospects of Intelligent Life

Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 09, 2015 Can life survive for billions of years longer than the expected timeline on Earth? As scientists discover older and older solar systems, it's likely that before long we'll find an ancient planet in a habitable zone. Knowing if life is possible on this exoplanet would have immense implications for habitability and the development of ancient life, one researcher says. In January, a group led Full article