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Where does Veronica's hair come from in the sky?

The ancient constellation Leo had a rather large "territory" in the sky, and Leo himself was the owner of a magnificent tassel on his tail. But in 243 BC, he lost it. There was a funny story about which the following legend says.

The Egyptian king Ptolemy Everget had a beautiful wife, Queen Veronica (or Berenice). Especially magnificent were her luxurious long hair. When Ptolemy went to war, his saddened wife swore an oath to the gods: if they keep her beloved husband safe and sound, she will sacrifice her hair.

Soon Ptolemy returned home safely, but when he saw his shorn wife, he was upset. The royal couple was somewhat reassured by the astronomer Konon, declaring that the gods lifted Veronica's hair to heaven, where they are destined to decorate spring nights forever.

The Leo constellation has shrunk by a few stars, but a new constellation has appeared: Veronica's Hair. It can be seen first with the naked eye and then with binoculars. A large group of faint stars resembles a school of flying cranes. Powerful telescopes detect inside and outside this "jamb" a whole cloud of galaxies - about a thousand star systems.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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The forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which Adam and Eve tasted and were expelled from paradise for it, is not specified in any text of the Bible. In the Western Christian tradition, it is usually considered an apple - perhaps because of the consonance of the Latin words malum ("evil") and malum ("apple"). But interpreters of the Bible offer other candidates for the role of the forbidden fruit - for example, grapes, pomegranates or figs. The latter option is justified by the fact that after eating the fruit, Adam and Eve covered their nakedness with the leaves of a fig tree.

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