Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation 'seven sisters', even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
Venus shines bright in the sky above Victoria.
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The planets we can see in the sky were known to the ancient Greeks as 'wandering stars'. But they appeared much earlier in the stories and traditions of Australia's Indigenous people.
Milky Way star map by Bill Yidumduma Harney, Senior Wardaman Edler.
Bill Yidumduma Harney
Four star names from Aboriginal Australia have been recognised by the International Astronomical Union. So what are they and where to find them?
Indigenous artists, including Josephine Mick, experience the immersive multimedia DomeLab, part of the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.
George Serras, NMA
A new look at some of the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians shows a deep understanding of three red-giant variable stars, long before European observers.
Somewhere up there is the road you’re on.
R. Scott Hinks/Wikimedia
Aboriginal people have been using the stars to help remember routes between distant locations, and these routes are still alive in our highway networks today.