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  "thread": {
    "id": 649,
    "subject": "constellations",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-21T13:46:38+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-21T13:46:38+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0086@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Tania Ruiz",
        "address": "ruiz at head-cfa.harvard.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-21T13:46:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) constellations",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I am briefly on this mailing list because the conversation about the\npossible constellations and such is quite intriguing, and I had some\nideas. A friend of mine on this\nlist brought the conversation to my attention! I'm an astronomer by\ntrade and by hobby, so naturally, I thought I'd have a stab at\ncontributing. \n\nThese are quotes from mdriussi:"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "4.  The sunlight/star is \"pink,\" which might mean stellar > class K or M."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Well, stars don't really come in \"pink\", but if the star is\nsignificantly red, such as an older star or a smaller K or M dwarf, it\nwill have a reddish tinge. You'd need to know its size before you could\ndetermine this. If the star is in fact pink, well, that's a really\ndifferent universe."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "CONSTELLATIONS\nShadow Child (with \"two bright star eyes\"): "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "This could be a play on the region inside of Cygnus, the Swan, whose\n\"head\", a star called Albireo, is actually a double star, and whose body\nlies in a portion of the Milky Way which has a dark smudgey area of\nobscuring dust known as the Rift. This dark swatch combined with the\ndouble star might be the reference here. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Five Flowers:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Could be like the Pleiades, where there are six visible stars, one of\nwhich is very dim and difficult to make out. Thus, they are five very\nbright white stars close together\nin a bundle. This is a dominant night sky icon in many\ncultures, including Japan where it is called Subaru."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Seeing Seed:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Could be a naked-eye, star forming region like the Orion Nebula (mark's\nidea). Or any good open cluster, like M44\nthe Beehive."
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Dead Man (planet):"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Maybe Mars, because it is so dull and red."
        },
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          "text": "Burning Hair Woman: "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "This is likely a pun on Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair, the flowing\nhair of a woman named Bernice as seen in the constellation of many stars\nin the northern sky."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Bearded Five Legs: "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "We were thinking this might be like Centaurus, the centaur,\nwho would indeed have \"beared legs\". "
        },
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          "text": "Eye of Cold (star): "
        },
        {
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          "text": "Could be a very blue star like Rigel or Sirius. \n\n\nWell, there's my two cents,\nTania Ruiz\n\nHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics"
        }
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