Astronomy Without A Telescope ? Animal Astronomy

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Astronomy Without A Telescope ? Animal Astronomy

id="attachment_67664" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 538px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/r239570_969506_credit-ABC2.jpg">class="size-full wp-image-67664" src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/r239570_969506_credit-ABC2.jpg" alt="" width="528" height="370" />class="wp-caption-text">Avian astronomers at work. Credit: abc.net.au.

In the 1950s, the href="http://wild-birds.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_migrating_birds_navigate_at_night">Sauer research team locked some birds inhref="http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/olbers-planetarium/"> Olbers planetarium and started messing with them. First they projected a northern hemisphere autumn sky and the birds flew 'south' – away from Polaris and keeping href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/betelgeuse/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Betelgeuse to the left ('east'). Then they projected a spring night sky and the birds flew 'north' towards Polaris with Betelgeuse again to their left, albeit this time in the 'west'. The position of Betelgeuse appeared to be significant, perhaps because it's one of the brighter href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">stars in the northern hemisphere and just to the north of the celestial equator.(...)
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