The Belgian radio station Studio Brussels and the MIRA Public Observatory have honored David Bowie with a constellation in the night sky, DDB Brussels reports. They registered seven stars in the shape of the iconic lightning bolt adorning Bowie’s face on the cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane. The constellation is fittingly “in the vicinity of Mars.” Studio Brussels and MIRA have also created a website called Stardust for Bowie where fans can add their favorite Bowie songs to a Google Sky representation of the constellation. Bolt-shaped constellation pays homage to David Bowie. Photo courtesy of SDSS, DSS Consortium, NASA/ESA/STScl “It was not easy to determine the appropriate stars. Studio Brussels asked us to give Bowie a unique place in the galaxy. Referring to his various albums, we chose seven stars – Sigma Librae, Spica, Alpha Virginis, Zeta Centauri, SAA 204 132, and the Beta Sigma Octantis Trianguli Australis – in the vicinity of [...]
