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by elliotto 733 days ago
A fun fact I learned while visiting the Globe Museum in Vienna, is that they used to make globes in pairs; one would be a globe of the Earth, and the other would be a Celestial Globe which is a projection of the sky onto a sphere. What you're seeing is a celestial globe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_globe