Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Amateur astronomy is filled with solutions to problems ... to track objects in the sky over long periods of time without any expensive commercially-available mounting systems.

DURING the six years that have elapsed since the publication of the second edition of Miss Clerke's classical history of astronomy, new light has been thrown upon a number of old ideas ...

At the same time, research on the astronomical knowledge ... 3, 1939), pointed out that while Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy are usually quoted as equivalent foundations of Greek, and ...

Radio astronomy is barely 30 years old, and new discoveries are being recorded almost every day. Ham Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky.

Expertly written and lavishly illustrated, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy offers a unique account of astronomical theory and practice from antiquity to the present day. How did Moslems ...

It does not attempt to cover everything, but deliberately concentrates on the important themes and topics. These include stellar astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the time ...

Physics, the study of space, time, matter, and energy, is a fundamental component of a liberal education. Introductory courses in physics and astronomy are designed to give students a broad background ...