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The greatest discoveries and advancements in the history of astronomy
From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of ...
Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...
The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...
Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the ...
The chemical signatures we're observing may reflect both the comet's ancient origins and its long journey through ...
The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN
A Brief and Amazing History of the Pleiades, Stars That Captivated Ancient Civilizations and Inspired Poets
Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high ...
The Indian Knowledge System (IKS) division under the Union education ministry has announced two student competitions –– one to create miniature, working models of ancient astronomical instruments to ...
Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...
Researchers decode the Dresden Codex eclipse table, revealing how Mayan daykeepers predicted solar eclipses before modern ...
In this “We the People” segment, FOX19 NOW’s Philip Krinsky discusses the history and impact of the Cincinnati Observatory.
ZME Science on MSN
How the Ancient Maya Predicted Eclipses Centuries in Advance
The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...
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