Okay, so today, I was browsing some news and saw this thing about NASA and a new zodiac calendar. It got me thinking, “What’s this all about?” I decided to dig into it.
First off, I went straight to the internet to find out what people were saying about this supposed new zodiac sign. I found some claims that NASA had officially announced a 13th zodiac sign called Ophiuchus. Sounds crazy, right? And get this, apparently if you were born between November 29 and December 17, you’re not a Scorpio or Sagittarius anymore. You’re this new thing, Ophiuchus. I was like, “What?”
I started to get skeptical, so I looked for NASA’s official word on this. I read somewhere that NASA made it clear they didn’t change the zodiac signs. They said that when the Babylonians made up the constellations 3,000 years ago, they just skipped a 13th sign. So, NASA was basically saying, “We just did the math, folks.”
Then I found something even more interesting. It turns out that the zodiac signs we know today aren’t exactly where they were when the Babylonians first charted them. The positions of the stars have apparently changed, but not because the stars themselves moved. It’s because our view of them from Earth has changed. This is due to something called Earth’s precession, which is like a slow wobble of our planet’s axis.
- This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024.
- This wobble makes the constellations appear to move a bit over time.
- I also read that this Ophiuchus thing has been proposed as a 13th sign before, but it’s never been officially accepted.
So, what did I do next? I tried to piece all this information together. I realized that NASA, being all about astronomy and not astrology, wouldn’t really care about changing zodiac signs. Their thing is exploring space, not telling people they’re a different sign now.
My Conclusion
After all this digging, I concluded that the whole “NASA changed the zodiac signs” thing is just a big misunderstanding. The internet blew it out of proportion, as usual. Yes, there’s this Ophiuchus thing, and yes, the positions of stars have shifted a bit over thousands of years. But no, NASA didn’t officially change anything about the zodiac. It’s just a cool bit of history and astronomy mixed up with some astrology.
So, there you have it. That’s my little adventure into the world of zodiacs and NASA. Pretty interesting stuff, even if it all turned out to be a bit of a mix-up.
