Astronomer John Barentine ran into this carving while hiking in the White Tank Mountain Regional Park in Arizona. The carving, made by prehistoric Native Americans, depicts a scorption and an eight-pointed star, which reminded him of the supernova of AD 1006 in the constellation Scorpius.
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9273-native-americans-recorded-supernova-explosion.html - via Nutmeg |
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