Published 16:23 IST, July 18th 2020

Fact check: Did NASA add 13th Zodiac sign called 'Ophiuchus'?

Fact check: A number of social media users were claiming that NASA has added a new zodiac sign, but the claims since then have been proven false.

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This won't be first time NASA has been associated with discovering 13th zodiac sign. For some years, a recurring me of fake news doing rounds on internet which claim that NASA has found a new zodiac sign. Like every year, NASA has come forward and cleared air around same.

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NASA's clarification over 13th zodiac sign rumours

" constellations are different sizes and shapes, so sun spends different lengths of time lined up with each one. line from Earth through sun points to Virgo for 45 days, but it points to Scorpius for only 7 days. To make a tidy match with ir 12-month calendar, Babylonians igred fact that sun actually moves through 13 constellations, t 12. n y assigned each of those 12 constellations equal amounts of time.

So, we didn’t change any zodiac signs…we just did math."

rumours started doing rounds on internet when it was claimed by many netizens that 13th zodiac sign, named 'Ophiuchus' or serpent bearer has been discovered. According to rumours, anyone born between vember 29 to December 17 would neir be a Scorpio or a Sagittarius but an 'Ophiuchus'. Scorpio's window was cut down to seven days, which was later addressed by NASA in ir blogpost, excerpts of which are stated above.

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blog post was originally written back in 2016 but claims of NASA finding 13th zodiac sign has been circulating for a long time. In conclusion, a new zodiac sign has t been discovered by NASA. research organisation, in ir blog post, explained difference between astromy and astrology. Ophiuchus is t a new constellation altoger but a rar forgotten one.

Google Trends analysis

As rumours about NASA adding a new star sign started doing rounds on internet. A number of users took to Google and searched to find truth. This resulted in a surge of search results around topics like 'NASA new star signs', 'NASA star sign change' and more. Check out Google Trends Analysis below -