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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Actually it was not removed. It just wasn't on the ecliptic plane before standardisation in 1930.

Constellations on sky change from time to time thanks to axial precession.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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