... to an observation by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus, which convinced him that the ... A century and a half later, an astronomer discovered that Mars indeed had two such ... Aristarchus was an early Greek Astronomer, living between 310-230 BC. ...
... For many years astronomers struggled in vain to observe the difference. ... In measuring star distances, astronomers frequently use the parsec , the distance to ... Astronomers designate stars in each constellation by letters of the Greek alphabet ...
... But before the space age, when astronomers were denied any view of the back of the ... And when the rotation lagged a bit behind, astronomers could see a bit more of the ...
... The priests of ancient Babylonia and Egypt were also pioneer astronomers. ... But it was a Greek astronomer, Hipparchus of Nicea , who made the first major new ... Ancient astronomers had no good clocks and could not tell when the day and night had ...
... Astronomers name it "Ursa Major," Latin for "the big bear," and some other languages also refer to it as the Big Bear. ... in the handle of the "dipper", named Mizar by Arab astronomers, is a double star, whose components are readily separated by ...
... Astronomers have studied a number of asteroids through Earth-based observations. ... Astronomers studied Toutatis, Geographos and Castalia using Earth-based radar observations during close approaches to the Earth ...
... Astronomers have named them "helmet streamers" because of their resemblance to spiked helmets worn by knights (and also to ... of the corona is its high temperature, deduced by the Swedish astronomer Bengt Edlen in 1942 after a study of the corona's ...