following a model suggested 12 centuries before by Alexandrian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. In the 16th century, Copernicus was part of a growing group of astronomers convinced that the sun is at ...

Geographical exploration is a type of quest, the objective being to discover remote lands. One major era, in the history of ...

With no scientific background, he claimed he awoke with intuitive knowledge of the physics of the solar system, and published a book with amateur astronomer Philip Fauth in 1921. One day ...

Legend has it that wishing upon a shooting star makes the wish come true. It is believed to have originated in Europe, when ...

Russell, F.R.S., astronomer royal for New South Wales ... the sun rise on their left hand instead of on their right. And Ptolemy, AD. 170, after describing the Malay Peninsula, says: Beyond ...

In the library of the Bohemian National Museum there is an album which Tycho gave his eldest son in 1599; on the first page of it is a portrait of the astronomer ... edition of Ptolemy's works ...

By Islam Salah In the Arab world, stars have always been more than distant points of light—they’ve been guides, storytellers, ...

The ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy included Ophiuchus in his list of 48 constellations, documenting it in the second century, and it still is one of the 88 modern-day constellations. There are a few ...

This constellation is one of the 48 that Ptolemy described almost 2,000 years ago ... It all began with a system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus in the 2nd century BCE, in which he ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Vikram Koka, chief ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been an amateur astronomer for 25-plus years. I always go meteor watching as well as observe any celestial event. This year I invited my brother-in-law and his wife to watch a ...

Happy New Year! If you are up before dawn this January, look for the bright — but elusive — planet Mercury in the sunrise direction. Try looking about 40 minutes before sunrise; binoculars ...