Space Discoveries
Massive rings
If you’ve ever wanted to get Peter Jackson‘s and movies packaged together in one giant box set then you’ll get your chance this fall. But if you want the extended editions on Blu-ray, it’s gonna cost you! Via ComingSoon, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, MGM, and New Line have revealed The Middle-earth…
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NASA discoveries 2013
Near-Earth Object 2013 US10 Turns Out to Be a Long-Period Comet Don Yeomans and Paul Chodas NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office Updated November 6, 2013 While initial reports from the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge MA categorized object 2013 US10 as a very large near-Earth asteroid, new observations now indicate that it is, in fact, a long period comet, and it is now…
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Aristotle and Astronomy
In the Middle Ages astronomy was one of the seven liberal arts along with grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, and music. In the Convivio Dante proclaims the nobility of astronomy as a science, praising its high and noble subject, which regards the movement of heaven, and high and noble because of its certainty, as coming from a most perfect and regular principle…
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Galileo discoveries in Astronomy
For astronomy buffs, the arrival of 2009 brings more than just resolutions to eat better or live more frugally. The fledgling year has been designated the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Astronomical Union. The IYA, intended to raise the public profile of astronomy…
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Recent Major events
HARI SREENIVASAN: Two major disasters in two different parts of the country have sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes, and caused millions of dollars in damage. Are these just freak events, or are they in some way related to climate change? William Brangham brings us the latest. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: It’s called the Blue Cut Fire, and it’s wreaking havoc in…
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Astronomy History Timeline
Timekeeping. Due to the inconsistent cycle of the sun and the moon, the Chinese lunisolar calendar was inter calculated. Emblem of a dynasty. Astronomers and astrologers habitually made a new Chinese calendar in every period of rise and fall of dynasties associating their observations with those events. Astrological prediction. Guests stars (unexpectedly surfaced along with…
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Articles on space
My first design job was with a small print design agency in Manchester that produced work in varying media: packaging, publications, and marketing support materials, and…direct mail. Article Continues Below I soon discovered that the graphic design principles I’d learned in college were of little use when I designed for direct mail, where big, bold, and crowded is the order…
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Galileo discoveries
Galileo Galilei is credited with discovering the first four moons of Jupiter. Credit: NASA Galileo Inventions The Ancient Greek scientist, Aristotle, taught that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, a belief still held in Galileo s lifetime. But Galileo wasn t convinced. Experimenting with balls of different sizes and weights, he rolled them down ramps with various…
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