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From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. The post 24 Astronomy Facts You Never Learned in School appeared first on Reader's Digest.
William Kenneth Hartmann (born June 6, 1939) is an American planetary scientist, artist, author, and writer.He was the first to convince the scientific mainstream that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body (), creating both the Moon and the Earth's 23.5° tilt.
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia [9] is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, [10] [11] which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual "note" pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet ...
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Star chart of the south polar projection for Chinese astronomer Su Song's (1020–1101) celestial globe. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), the Chinese astronomer Su Song wrote a book titled Xin Yixiang Fa Yao (New Design for the Armillary Clock) containing five maps of 1,464 stars. This has been dated to 1092.
From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. The post 24 Astronomy Facts You Never Learned in School appeared first on Reader's Digest.
UNAWE became a Cornerstone project of the successful UN-ratified IAU/UNESCO International Year of Astronomy in 2009 (IYA2009). During IYA2009, thousands of UNAWE activities were organised in more than 45 countries. For example, in Venezuela, 43 teacher training sessions reached more than 1500 teachers and well over 60 000 children.
Publishers Weekly said that the book was a "lively introduction to the chart that has been the bane of many a chemistry student", [5] and in a review in New Scientist, Vivienne Greig called The Periodic Table "an engrossing read and an ideal way to painlessly impart a great deal of science history to seen-it-all-before teenagers."