Tanabata
July 7, 2019 Today Japan celebrates the Star festival or Tanabata. In all civilizations, folk stories and legends are a kind of truth shrouded in myth making and fantasy. So it is, with the story of Tanabata. It marks the summer triangle - the time of the year when the stars Vega and Altair are visible close to each other. This day marks the time when they reach the highest point in the sky, at around midnight. The Star Deneb completes the triangle by connecting Altair and Vega. All three are the brightest stars in their constellations.Now coming to the story that makes this scientific fact more easy and fun to digest - The King of the sky had a beautiful daughter, Princess Orihime who was an accomplished weaver. She worked on her loom without respite and wove beautiful clothes that her father loved, working away in their abode close to the celestial river, the milky way. Sensing her loneliness, the king of the sky arranged for his daughter to meet Hikoboshi, A cowherd w
