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    Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial bodies. Stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae are studied, as are supernovae explosions...
  • The history of astronomy tells how civilizations thought about the sky they saw at night. It also discusses the beginnings of modern astronomy. Babylonian...
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    Aborigines were some of the first people in the world to develop ideas with astronomy. It is possible that their interpretation of astronomy is the oldest still...
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    Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Adler Planetarium Collections & Archives Archived 2010-05-02 at the Wayback Machine History of the Adler Archived...
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    Hannu Karttunen; et al., Fundamental Astronomy (Berlin; New York: Springer, 2007), p. 86 Magnitude System Magnitudes: Measuring the Brightness of Stars...
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    which depend on one of more of the natural sciences. Medicine is an example. Innovation Scientific method History of astronomy History of mathematics Medical...
  • History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region, p. 155. Nussbaum, "Takahashi Yoshitoki" at p. 933. Orchiston, Highlighting the History of Astronomy in...
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    Archived 2021-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Space (ISO) Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) History (IHO) Economics (IEO) "Silver, bronze medals at computer...
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    Geocentrism (category Astronomy)
    Around AD 150, Ptolemy wrote his great handbook of astronomy called Mathematike Syntaxis... "Ptolemaic Astronomy in the Middle Ages". Kunitzsch, Paul (2008)...
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    branch of astronomy. It looks at large structures in the universe. It wants to explain how the universe came to be what it is today by using axioms of our...
  • physics of what they see to explain the Universe. Radio astronomy Optical astronomy Infrared astronomy Ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray astronomy using...
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    Mauna Kea (category Volcanoes of Hawaii)
    10-meter mirror is one of the most powerful in the world. Mauna Kea is an important site, especially for infrared astronomy, because of its height and clear...
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    Celestial coordinate system (category Astronomy)
    from the early history of Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag, p 17–19. Majewski, Steve. "Coordinate Systems". UVa Department of Astronomy. Archived from...
  • physics; who spent most of his time observing Jupiter and studying flare stars. He was also interested in the history of astronomy and worked as a technician...
  • Machine Indian Calendars (by Leow Choon Lian, pdf, 1.22mb) Positional astronomy in India India Image website Archived 2007-02-19 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Uranus (redirect from Astronomy Uranus)
    9, 2007. Forbes, George 1909. History of Astronomy. O'Connor J.J. and Robertson E.F. (1996). "Mathematical discovery of planets". Archived from the original...
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    Cosmology (section History)
    of astronomy that deals with the origin, structure, evolution and space-time relationships of the universe. NASA defines cosmology as "The study of the...
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    study of the architecture of the Earth. It is a broader term than geology because it includes aspects of planetary science, which is part of astronomy. The...
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    which is one out of billions of galaxies. Dreyer, J.L.E. (1953), A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, New York, NY: Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-60079-3...
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    poor. He grandfather, Guo Yong, was famous for his study of the Five Classics to astronomy, mathematics, and hydraulics. Guo Shoujing was a child prodigy...
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