Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy (Astronomers' Universe)
Peter Grego, David Mannion
Language: English
Pages: 310
ISBN: 1441955704
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In 1609 Galileo first used his telescope to kick start the science of observational astronomy - an event that proved to be of enormous historic, scientific, and cultural importance. Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy will feature the life and achievements of Galileo, around which has pivoted the story of four centuries of telescopic astronomy. The book will detail how astronomy has progressed through four centuries and contain glimpses of future space research and astronomy goals. Uniquely, interwoven with the text will be a range of practical projects for backyard astronomers in which to participate, projects that serve to illustrate many of Galileo's scientific discoveries.
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Was just one of a broader mass of stars contained within a vast star system containing countless thousands of stars. In the mid-eighteenth century, Thomas Wright was most perceptive in suggesting that the band of the Milky Way was caused by our view from deep within a vast, flat, millwheel-shaped star system; he found no evidence that the Sun lay at the Galaxy’s center, or that the system was finite in breadth. Thomas Wright’s 1750 concept of the Galaxy’s layout Herschel’s Insights From.
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Radiation is in our line of sight (like a lighthouse beam). The pulses are extremely regular and range from milliseconds to several seconds. There are more than 1,600 pulsars that have been observed in our galaxy, the first discovered by Jocelyn Bell in 1967. The Crab Nebula which is the supernova remnant of the supenova seen in 1054 by the Chinese, has a 33-ms pulsar that has been observed at all wavelengths from radio to gamma rays. QuadrantAn ancient instrument used to measure the altitude of.