... Note : The book " First Light " by Richard Preston describes how astronomers at the 200-inch telescope on Mt. ... A recommended, well-written book by a writer who spent some months living with the astronomers at the observatory.] ...
... with Tycho Brahe , an arrogant Danish nobleman who was also a talented astronomer ... Brahe was a Danish astronomer. ... Kepler was an astronomer hired by Tycho to help analyze his observations. ...
... of objects that were once thought to exist by astronomers, but which later 'vanished ... During the 19th century, astronomers were puzzled over unexplained deviations in the ...
... Early astronomers understood the different shapes of the moon, noting that each was ... Lunar eclipses allowed the Greek astronomer Aristarchus, around 220 BC, to estimate ...
... Their priests were excellent astronomers--helped, no doubt, by the clear skies in a ... after centuries of observations, Babylonian astronomers concluded that in a cycle of ...
... of objects that were once thought to exist by astronomers, but which later 'vanished ... a number of suspicious "dots" on the Sun , and another astronomer found some more ...
... remotely, a bit like the way astronomers observe distant stars through their ... Astronomers use light, which moves in straight lines. ... Astronomers named them " M regions " (M for magnetic storms), and for a long time no ...
... Dark lanes seen in the Milky Way are real features familiar to astronomers. ... This vantage point enables solar astronomers to use SOHO's 12 science instruments to observe the Sun continuously, with no ...
... Learn about Galileo, the first astronomer to use a telescope, and of his discoveries ... a Polish church official and an amateur astronomer, who proposed that the Earth was ...
... Astronomers have studied Neptune since September 23, 1846, when Johann Gottfried ... of Neptune was limited by the astronomer's ability to see the distant object, almost ...