Interesting Facts

Astronomers in Belgium have dedicated a constellation to David Bowie. (The constellation will be called Starman, as it is made up of seven stars that, when connected, form the iconic lightning bolt seen on the cover of Bowie's Aladdin Sane album. Appropriately the seven stars — Sigma Librae, Spica, Alpha Virginis, Zeta Centauri, SAA 204 132, and the Beta Sigma Octantis Trianguli Australis, form the newly named constellation in the vicinity of Mars.)

There are only 12 star signs in the zodiac. (This means that if you read your horoscope online or in a magazine, in the UK alone each horoscope has to cover about 5.25 million people, and world-wide about 570 million people.   Which means that today 570 million Virgos are going to be feeling underappreciated.)

According to astronomer Parke Kunkle, the zodiac signs you were supposedly born into are different now because the Earth's wobble on its axis has created a one-month bump in the alignment of the stars. (Because of the moon’s gravitational pull, Earth is currently in a different spot in relation to the sun, and its equatorial alignment has changed from 3,000 years ago when the study of astrology began -- back when 12 zodiac signs were assigned to 12 different periods of the year. Which means that a Virgo may now be a Leo, an Aquarius - a Capricorn, and a Taurus - an Aries. To confuse matters even further, he added a new horoscope, Ophiuchus. So using this theory your "up to date" horoscope, reflecting where the stars currently are aligned, is:- Capricorn: Jan. 20 - Feb. 16 Aquarius: Feb. 16 - March 11 Pisces: March 11- April 18 Aries: April 18- May 13 Taurus: May 13- June 21 Gemini: June 21- July 20 Cancer: July 20- Aug. 10 Leo: Aug. 10- Sept. 16 Virgo: Sept. 16- Oct. 30 ...

If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. (So I'd better start now. 1, 2, 3, ...)