Physics

A Greek star catalog from the dawn of astronomy, revealed

A hidden astronomical catalog has been uncovered in a particle accelerator experiment

An illustration shows researchers examining a glowing, scroll-like artifact inside a futuristic lab as beams of light reveal hidden writing.

A particle accelerator’s powerful X-rays have uncovered star maps that haven’t been seen in over a thousand years.

Jason Lyon

By Adam Mann

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The squiggles are a poem written in ancient Greek about heavenly phenomena, seen for the first time by human eyes in nearly a millennium and a half.