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Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. [1] It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. It may have been created by debris from the breakup of the parent body of asteroid 495 Eulalia 800 million ...
Nicolaus Copernicus [b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
Copernicus or OAO-3 (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3), also mentioned as Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-C, [1] [2] was a space telescope intended for ultraviolet and X-ray observation. After its launch, it was named Copernicus to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus in 1473.
This story is a collaboration with Biography.com.. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system ...
A flight spare of the grazing incidence mirror built for OAO-3 (Copernicus). The mirror was part of the X-ray telescope built by University College London. It is now held in the collections of the Science Museum, London. OAO-3 was launched on 21 August 1972, [7] and proved to be the most successful of the OAO missions.
The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), is a public observatory in Vestal, New York opened to the public on June 16, 1974, by the Kopernik Society of Broome County to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik) in 1973.
The heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, [9] [note 1] is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System.
Toruń 32-metre antenna – RT4 Toruń 15-metre antenna – RT3. The Institute of Astronomy [1]: 6 of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, known prior to 1 October 2019 in scientific publications as the Toruń Centre for Astronomy, [2] is an optical and radio observatory located at in Piwnice, about 15 km north of Toruń, Poland