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The Magellanic Clouds must be renamed, astronomers say

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The Magellanic Clouds must be renamed, astronomers say

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SpaceEnglish • 1 year ago

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Ferdinand Magellan, who murdered and enslaved indigenous people, was not an astronomer nor the clouds' discoverer.

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Are you getting your information from fictional TV shows? You know they’re all actors right? None of them were actually there? Most of them aren’t even the right nationality? And they didn’t have TV back then?

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