Meteors project – Astronomy activity
Lyrid meteor shower How can I see meteors? The best way to learn about meteors is to go look at actual meteors falling into Earth's atmosphere. You can just look up at the [...]
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Eclipse of the moon project – Astronomy
Looking at an eclipse of the moon A project with lunar eclipses The best way to learn about eclipses of the moon is to go outside and look at one. Plus, it's [...]
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What is centrifugal force? Physics definitions
Kids playing tetherball using centrifugal force Who first explained centrifugal force? When something is going straight, it always keeps going straight unless something else stops it or turns it. (The [...]
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Medieval astronomy in Europe
Astrolabe in Hebrew, probably from Spain (1300s AD) In the early Middle Ages, most people in Europe were too poor to have much time for astronomy. But some people were still interested in [...]
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Medieval Islamic astronomy
Islamic astronomers taking observations West Asian astronomy before Islam West Asian astronomers had been world leaders in astronomy for thousands of years before the Islamic conquests in the 600s AD. In the last centuries BC, [...]
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How Ganesh cursed the Moon – Hinduism – India
Ganesh cursed the moon (Musee Guimet, Paris, from Tamil Nadu, ca. 1500 AD) Narada offered a sacrifice Now long ago Brahma was sitting with Shiva when a man called Narada came along. And Narada [...]
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Who was Thales of Miletus? Greek Astronomy
Thales of Miletus might have watched plays in this theater at Miletus (before it had stone seats) Biography of Thales Thales was born in what's now Turkey, in the city [...]
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What is parallax? History of astronomy
Parallax and your finger Parallax comes from the Greek word "para", meaning "alternate" and "alla", meaning "change". Greek people used the word parallax to describe how an object seems to move when [...]
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The moon in Greek astronomy
The moon in ancient Greece - A photograph of the moon from space The goddess Artemis Early Greeks thought of the moon as the goddess Artemis. Where the Egyptians had thought of the moon as a [...]
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The earth in Greek astronomy
The earth in Greek astronomy: The Greeks never saw this view of the earth from space! Gaia and the Earth Early Greeks thought of the Earth as the goddess Gaia, the mother of [...]
