Naming the stars

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Copernicus's body has been found. Or rather, a skeleton interred in a cathedral where he is known to have lived has been identified as his. There's the obligatory facial reconstruction making him look like a serial murderer; for an antidote, check out the picture of young, hot Copernicus on this brief biography link.

Here's a more detailed biography with more emphasis on his writings; a good explanation of Copernican astronomy (with a nifty little animated thingy explaining retrograde motion) is here.