... is the longitude of the Royal Astronomical Observatory in Greenwich, at the eastern ... The observatory is now a museum and visitors there are shown a brass ribbon ... Even in ancient times sailors knew that the Earth was round and scientists not only ...
... Russian astrophysical observatory "Spectr-R" was succesfully inserted into the ... NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory astrophysicists Dr. Marat Gilfanov (IKI, Russia ... conducted with help of the space observatories, discovered that its disk is glowing ...
... across the sky--"The Milky Way" to ancient Greek observers, and to us, our galaxy ... to an 8-meter (diameter) telescope of the Southern European Observatory in Chile ... The ancient Jewish name for the milky way was "river of fire" (nahar di nur). ...
... the island of Hven to build an observatory, with the taxes of the island providing ... The ellipse, the shape of a flattened circle, was well known to the ancient Greeks. ...
... across the sky--"The Milky Way" to ancient Greek observers, and to us, our galaxy ... to an 8-meter (diameter) telescope of the Southern European Observatory in Chile ... The ancient Jewish name for the milky way was "river of fire" (nahar di nur). ...
... passing the old Royal Astronomical Observatory in Greenwich, England, is the one ... edge of London, the British capital, the observatory is now a public museum and a ... the first point in Aries , because in ancient times, when first observed by the ...
... That is "the celestial sphere." In ancient times people believed such a sphere actually existed and was rotating around us. ... A recommended, well-written book by a writer who spent some months living with the astronomers at the observatory.] ...
... him and gave him the island of Hven to build an observatory, with the taxes of the island providing him with the funding ... The ellipse, the shape of a flattened circle, was well known to the ancient Greeks. ...
... see how consistent the direction of ancient magnetic fields was with the direction ... Building a magnetic observatory is technically difficult, and so is running it. ...
... see how consistent the direction of ancient magnetic fields was with the direction ... Building a magnetic observatory is technically difficult, and so is running it. ...