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The wandering stars

Some lights kept their places.

Some did not.

Some lights will not stay still.

Working reconstruction, 40°N 15°E. Not a historical scene.

A working reconstruction of a mid-latitude night. Most of the lights keep their pattern from night to night. Those are the fixed stars. A few bright lights shift against that background over days and months. Those wanderers became the planets visible to the naked eye.

Before telescopes, that was already a problem: if the sky is a reliable order, why will some of it not stay still? PLANETAI follows what happened when people tried to answer.

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