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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
Natasha May

Seeing stars: the astronomical rise of Australian dark-sky tourism

River Murray Dark Sky Reserve, SA Australia.
The night sky above River Murray Dark Sky reserve in South Australia. Photograph: Michael Waterhouse

An Aboriginal dreamtime story tells of the fire magic in the foot of Kambughuda, protecting her younger sisters from the hunter Nyeeruna.

The story doesn’t just exist in the oral tradition of the world’s oldest living cultures, it plays out in the night sky; the hunter Nyeeruna is known in the western astrological tradition as Orion; Kambughuda’s fire magic is the red star Aldebaran and her little sisters the Pleiades constellation.

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