Love em or hate em, you can’t discount the popularity of zodiac signs and our generation’s fascination with them.
Recently, a report started making rounds that the Zodiac signs as we knew them were all wrong, and that new ones were ‘discovered’ by NASA.
Let’s get to the bottom of this and separate the facts from the fiction.
The Zodiac “Ophiuchus”
Cosmopolitan reported earlier that NASA has “sneakily added” another zodiac sign to the original 12. This story spread like wild fire like all rumors do, and eventually NASA took notice of it as well.
The story went that NASA had shifted around the dates for the original horoscopes and added in a thirteenth zodiac called “Ophiuchus”.
What’s really fishy about this is not that there was another zodiac added or the original dates changed, but the presumption that NASA was doing it. This made a lot of people take notice. Something didn’t add up here.
Many people had but just one question about the whole affair – how can a department such as NASA end up doing something completely unrelated to science?
Turns out they didn’t. A spokesperson from NASA, Dwayne Brown says it loud and clear,
NASA studies Astronomy not Astrology. We didn’t change any Zodiac signs, we just did the math.
The webpage Cosmopolitan (and others who spread the news) links to also mentions right at the start that Astrology is not science. That there is a difference between Astrology and Astronomy.
What’s Really Going On
In ancient times, Babylonians used the constellations that appeared in the sky during various periods of time and associated them with gods and different myths. That’s how Zodiac signs came into being.
What NASA says is that after Babylonians named the 12 different zodiacs after the constellations 3000 years ago, Earth has slightly shifted its axis. It doesn’t point towards those same constellations in the same time periods any more.
The “13th Zodiac” always existed, it wasn’t included because in ancient times they didn’t think it would fit in with the other 12 with their corresponding time periods.
NASA only shows how Earth’s axis has shifted to point towards different constellations. It has by no means declared the existence of another zodiac sign.
Somehow the original news article about NASA adding another zodiac sign twisted the information mentioned on the page linked earlier to mean something completely different.
In other words, don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Do your research first. For those who can’t read, there is no new zodiac sign discovered the old ones are still relevant.
Speak English may be? Couldn’t make any sense of this gibberish.
Sab se aakhri line kaam ki hai :-)
JUST LIKE THIS ARTICLE
You’re free to believe whatever you want :)
Aaare Haamiz bhai no hard feelings, main tu awaeen hi tafreeh kar raha tha. Baki rahi baat article ki tu uski tu koi samajh nahi aai mujhe :-)
Hahaha hard feelings ki baat nai he, i apologize agar koi baat samajh nai ai. Ill try to improve my writing as much as i can.
Baki end main akhri 2-3 paras main sab summarise kiya he. I changed a few things at the end
Aaare nahi its not about your writing skills, its more off my reading skills :-p And the lack on interest in the topic :-)
ap is taraha karay zodiac 2007 ki movie dekh la ma b dekh raha ho…………
Aare Khalid bhai aur bhi gham hain duniya main is Zodiac ke siwa, ab bas yehi reh gaya hai dekhne ko :-)
Free your mind neo
So you’re telling me that I might be a Scorpio now? No wonder I’ve started getting more cranky since last few months :P
There is no “new” zodiac sign. You are still under the same zodiac, if you believe in horoscopes and such.
lol@whoever wrote this article
“The creation of these stars is for three purposes, i.e. as decoration of the sky, as missiles to hit the devils, and as signs to guide travellers. So, if anybody tries to find a different interpretation, he is mistaken and just wastes his efforts…” Bukhari vol.4 ch.3
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Zaid ibn Khalid Al-Juhani reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led the morning prayer at Hudaibiya while there were marks of rainfall during the night. After prayer he turned toward the people and asked, “Do you know what your Lord has said?” They replied, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” The Prophet said, “Allah said: Some of my servants entered the morning as believers in me and others as disbelievers. Whoever said we have been given rain due to the favor and mercy of Allah, he is a believer in me and a disbeliever in the power of the stars. Whoever said we have been given rain due to the rising of this star, he has disbelieved in me and he has put his faith in the stars.”