Woke Astronomers Pushing for Renaming “Heavenly Bodies”

.... The slave-owning explorer’s name is also attached to craters on the moon and Mars, which are called Magelhaens; the NASA Magellan spacecraft; the twin 6.5-m Magellan telescopes; and most recently, the cutting-edge Giant Magellan Telescope that is currently being built.

Although Magellan has been celebrated through the ages as a daring explorer who led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean and discovered the interoceanic passage now called the Strait of Magellan, he was also known to commit horrific acts against some of the native populations he encountered......

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