HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences‚ dating back to antiquity‚ with its origins in the religious‚ mythological‚ and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology‚ a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy‚ and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World . In some cultures astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication. Ancient astronomers were able
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Astronomy Test Review Chapter 1 1. What is our comic address in order of increasing size? - Our solar system is located a little more than half way from the galactic center to the edge of the galactic disk. - Earth - The solar System - Milky Way Galaxy - Local group - Local supercluster - Universe Where is the Sun in the Milky Way? -The sun is located in one of the Milky Way’s outer arms‚ about 25‚000 light years from the galactic center. - Also in the Orion Arim‚ more than half
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the Moon is totally shielded from direct illumination by the Sun. In contrast‚ within the penumbrashadow‚ only a portion of sunlight is blocked. [pic] [pic] As seen by an observer on Earth on the imaginary celestial sphere‚ the Moon crosses the ecliptic every orbit at positions called nodes twice every month. When the full moon occurs in the same position at the node‚ a lunar eclipse can occur. These two nodes allow two to five eclipses per year‚ parted by approximately six months. (Note: Not drawn
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Gen200 Characters of Zodiac Signs What are zodiac signs? What do these signs represent? The zodiac is an annual cycle of twelve station or‚ (signs) along the ecliptic‚ path of the sun and across the heavens and recognized as the first known celestial coordinates system. Zodiac signs consist of twelve sign which are Aries the first sign‚ Taurus‚ Gemini‚ Cancer‚ Leo‚ Virgo‚ Libra‚ Scorpio‚ Sagittarius‚ Capricorn
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"19th century‚ the developing age of Magic-industrial and the changing of social life in Walpurgis and the neighboring dimensions had begun‚ although the problems with diseases‚ famine and war which were on the mind of people at the time. October the 17th‚ 1837 which marks the end of the first Lunarian civil war which ended in the birth of a much greater technology known to the world as "Mystech‚ headed from the scary yet devastating weapon often called‚ “the mechanical star destroyer Betelgeuse"
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Some people seem to think that the red cross which is used as a symbol by the American Red Cross and International Red Cross is a Christian symbol - and therefore that these organizations are Christian in character. I don’t know why‚ but these people don’t seem to realize that cross are and have been used as symbols outside of Christianity. Media Matters reports: [A]ccording to the American Red Cross website‚ it was “[i]n honor of the Swiss ... [that] the symbol of a red cross on a white background
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------------------------------------------------- Hipparchus "Even if he did not invent it‚ Hipparchus is the first person of whose systematic use of trigonometry we have documentary evidence." (Heath 257) Some historians go as far as to say that he invented trigonometry. Not much is known about the life of Hipp archus. It is believed that he was born at Nicaea in Bithynia. (Sarton 285) The town of Nicaea is now called Iznik and is situated in northwestern Turkey. Founded in the 4th century BC
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Constellation From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In modern astronomy‚ a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms (which themselves are generally referred to in non-technical language as "constellations")‚ which are patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth’s night sky. There are 88 standard constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 1922. The
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Shortly following Soyal‚ the winter solstice ceremony‚ a lunar festival begins. Powamu represents the festival in which the Hopi observe the first new moon after Soyal. The leaders observe the crescent moon that would be waning to become a New Moon. “Thus‚ Powamu is fixed in time by an observation of sunset to determine Soyal‚ a subsequent count of days for the length of the Soyal festival (and perhaps the Warrior ceremony)‚ and then the first Full Moon and New Moon following these ceremonies lead
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