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Hace 2 días · Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxies, meteoroids, asteroids, and comets.
- List of Astronomers
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and...
- List of Astronomers
Hace 2 días · Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/ GAL-il-EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian ...
29 de abr. de 2024 · Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. He also made revolutionary telescopic discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter.
- Albert Van Helden
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
11 de abr. de 2024 · Johannes Kepler, German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. His discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centered system into a dynamic universe, with the Sun actively pushing the planets around in noncircular orbits.
- Johannes Kepler was an astronomer. He originally studied to be a theologian at the University of Tübingen. He became very interested in astronomy,...
- Johannes Kepler is best known for his three laws of planetary motion. These laws are:
- Johannes Kepler and his laws were a great influence on Isaac Newton. Newton came up with a law of gravity, which states that masses attract each ot...
- Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in the town of Weil der Stadt in the duchy of Württemberg, now in Germany.
- After contracting a fever, Johannes Kepler died on November 15, 1630, in Regensburg, in the duchy of Bavaria, now in Germany. He had gone to Regens...
Hace 1 día · Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American astronomer who popularized science with his books and frequent appearances on radio and television. (Read Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Britannica essay on public science.)
2 de may. de 2024 · A Super Long Time. How long did all of this take? Well, we now know that the universe is 13,800,000,000 years old—that’s 13.8 billion. That is a very long time. What's in a Name? That’s pretty much how the universe began. Because it got so big and led to such great things, some people call it the " Big Bang ."
