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The Nebra sky disc (c. 1800–1600 BCE), found near a possibly astronomical complex, most likely depicting the Sun or full Moon, the Moon as a crescent, the Pleiades and the summer and winter solstices as strips of gold on the side of the disc, [9] [10] with the top representing the horizon [11] and north.
Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members
Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh. The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday ...
NASA has spoken about a "lunar gold rush" and explored the potential of moon mining. ... The debris from the collision came together to form the moon. Temperatures vary: in full Sun, they rise to ...
Calendars of the world have often been set by observations of the Sun and Moon (marking the day, month and year), and were important to agricultural societies, in which the harvest depended on planting at the correct time of year, and for which the nearly full moon was the only lighting for night-time travel into city markets. [11]
Thomas Gold [3] (May 22, 1920 – June 22, 2004 [4]) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, who also held British and American citizenship.He was a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). [4]
A European non-profit organization has called for a global synergistic collaboration between all space agencies and nations instead of a "Moon race"; this proposed collaborative concept is called the Moon Village. [113] Moon Village seeks to create a vision where both international cooperation and the commercialization of space can thrive.
Planetary symbols are used in astrology and traditionally in astronomy to represent a classical planet (which includes the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The classical symbols were also used in alchemy for the seven metals known to the ancients, which were associated with the planets, and in calendars for the seven days of the week associated with the seven planets.