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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer and geodesist born 15 March 1713. From 1750 to 1754, he traveled to the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa to study the southern sky, a hemisphere largely unmapped by European science. Using a refracting telescope, he observed over 10,000 stars and went on to name 14 of the 88 constellations recognized today. He died 21 March 1762, six days after his forty-ninth birthday.