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Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy.
Archaeoastronomy. The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [ 1] or multidisciplinary [ 2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky ...
Babylonian astronomy. Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was based on sixty, as opposed to ten in the modern decimal system. This system simplified the calculating and recording of unusually great and small numbers.
The 2024 solar eclipse may be both exciting and overwhelming for kids. Experts recommend some measures to promote safety, education and mental health. How should I talk to my child about the 2024 ...
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [ 1]
We did some digging to find out why. This total solar eclipse — which won't occur again for 20 years — will cut a 115-mile-wide path across 15 U.S. states. It will start a little after 12 p.m ...
Kids colored in chalk on a circle and then spread it out with their fingers onto a black piece of construction paper to replicate how the sun's corona looks during a total solar eclipse.
1868 – Jules Janssen observes a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587.49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun, during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India. Later in the same year, Norman Lockyer observed the same line in the solar spectrum, and concluded that it was caused by an element in the Sun unknown on Earth.