Ancient Towers in Peru Were Used to Study Sun
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By John Noble Wilford Early people in Peru, like others in antiquity, went to great lengths to track the rising and setting of the Sun through the seasons as a guide for agriculture, an object of worship and a mystical demonstration of a ruler's power.
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Archaeologists describe an ancient civilisation that was flourishing in Peru over 5,000 years ago.
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BOULDER, COLORADO -- Think    of it as some sort of extraterrestrial axiom: Look for places on a celestial    body where the Sun doesn't shine.
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Scientists find the fossil of a giant penguin which lived 36 million years ago in the tropics of what is now Peru.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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A consortium of nonprofits aim to restore sections of the Inca Road, the 500-year-old route that linked the Inca Empire from present-day Colombia to central Chile.
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The new findings are the fruit of 15 years of excavations in the Oaxaca Valley of southern Mexico that have brought to light a remarkably complete series of structures used for religious purposes.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international telescope project, reached a major milestone on 2 March, when two 12-m ALMA prototype antennas were first linked together as an integrated system to observe an astronomical object.
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According to Kenyon and Bromley&#39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun&#39;s birth.
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Scientists give details of a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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Hundreds of people in Peru require treatment after visiting what some say is a meteorite impact site.
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Analysis of bones in the cathedral of Seville in southern Spain leaves open the possibility that they are those of the explorer Christopher Columbus, a lead
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An ancient Peruvian culture loved its dogs so much it buried them alongside humans and even tossed in some tasty treats for the afterlife. Now, researchers are working to get these very same dogs official breed status.
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Shining a light on the solar industry.
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It's the 17th century. If the pope says the sun revolves around the Earth, then the sun revolves around the Earth. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Observations by an international team of astronomers with the UVES spectrometer on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile) have thrown new light on the earliest epoch of the Milky Way galaxy.