The history of Babylon is divided into two stages separated from each other by the period of Assyrian rule; the Pale Babylonian or Amorite Empire…
HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMY
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences and at the same time one of the most modern. Apparently despised until a few years ago, under…
Star Formation in R136: A Cluster of O3 Stars Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy
The R136 cluster in 30 Doradus is the prototype “super star cluster,” and the only example sufficiently close that its massive star content can be…
Modern astronomy
At last everything had changed; since Newton astronomy had come of age and occupied its rightful place within the wide range of the sciences, abandoning…
The heliocentric revolution
And the light of the Renaissance flooded the Orb, lit arts and sciences and, as an immediate consequence, illuminated astronomy. Thus began the so-called Modern…
Earth, center of the universe
Of the obscurantism practiced by the ancient shamans and priests in their ancestral rites of superstition, sometimes mixed with the light of the careful and…
ASTRONOMY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Finally, and as a further reflection of the influence they attributed to celestial events on their daily life and on its journey after death, it…
The first cultures and the vault light blue
It is very suggestive to imagine how it all started. How a human being decided to look at the sky with different eyes, eyes scrutinizers…
Introduction
This is a magic and dream book. The celestial observation began as an attempt to find out the design of the gods, to interpret their…
Galileo
Galileo was born in Pisa in 1564 (the year Michelangelo died) and died in Arcetri in 1642 (the year Newton was born). Dedse 1597 he…