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We humans have used the night skies for millennia to guide us on our journeys. Celestial bodies have guided us on our adventures into the unknown and back, bringing new knowledge of foreign countries, strange customs, and even more intriguing landscapes. Our insatiable curiosity has driven us to conquer broad oceans and vast mountain ranges, and we have even started to explore space itself.

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Jónsdóttir, S.R., Gunnarsdóttir, R. (2017). Being Human Today. In: The Road to Independence. Advances in Innovation Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-800-6_1

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