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Indian and German scientists discovered the oldest in the Himalayas drawing describing space disaster.
At first glance, it might seem that this is the most common image of the hunt: two people with a bow and a spear are visible, clogging deer or moose. Next to the hunters is a domesticated dog. In a word, a completely trivial plot for rock art our ancestors. However, at the top of the composition you can find two strange details, like celestial bodies. While one the artist completely scratched the object on the stone, and the other only partially.
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Researchers are sure that an incomplete object is a The moon. However, then what is the second luminary? It cannot be the sun maybe, since ancient people knew perfectly well that the sun and moon shine at different times of the day, and never depicted them together. Of of this, scientists concluded that the prehistoric artist painted nearby a supernova exploded with the moon, the cloud from which is visible in the night sky in the form of the brightest ball. Astronomers have determined that about 5600 years ago, when this drawing was made, over The Earth was actually visible supernova “HB9”, located in 2600 light years from our planet and shining at night as well bright, like Selena.
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It turns out that the incredible sight impressed the artist so much that he decided to sketch it in stone. Astronomers, by the way, don’t rule out the possibility that hunting is distantly related to a drawing, but in fact, these characters are images of constellations, located near the exploding supernova. So, in the form of a deer the artist could depict the constellation Taurus, in the form of a hunter with a spear – a constellation of fish, a bow hunter is Orion, and a dog symbolizes the Andromeda nebula. If this is true, then the knowledge of primitive people in astronomy is impressive, if not more.
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