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A significant majority of named stars bear Arabic names as an homage to the early role Arabs played in navigation.

“as an homage to the Arabic role in navigating the sky, twothirds of all stars in the sky that have names have Arabic names.”

StarTalk · Jan 2023 · 2 episodes · 654K views on this topic

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