Pluto is a dwarf planet, that is to say, a celestial body that draws an orbit around the Sun and that its mass is sufficient…
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ASTRONOMY
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ASTRONOMY. – Edwin Hubble (1889-1953). The great epoch of cosmology begins at the beginning of this century with the construction of large…
Galileo Galilei , Astronomy
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). He was a proponent of the Copernican theory, which brought him great conflicts with the Inquisition of Rome, where he was forbidden…
Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Considered the true architect of the new astronomy. Based on the reading of ancient authors who made reference to the system Heliocentric…
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…