Astronomer traces Zodiac's time and place of birth
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Calculating its horoscope any minute now An astronomer has traced the origins of the earliest known descriptions of what would become the constellations of today's Zodiac to the region which once held the Assyrian cities of Ninova and Asur.â¦
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Dopo fallimento di 2 anni fa, in orbita 2 satelliti
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Scientists have pieced together how a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator was built, revealing an astounding level of craftsmanship for its time.
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The first direct image of a planet circling another star may have been obtained by a US-European team of astronomers.
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The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planetâs turbulent past.
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Chinese astronomers mark the beginning of Supernova 1054, heralding the birth of what will become known as the Crab Nebula.
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The outer reaches of our solar system may have been shaped long ago by a close encounter with another star that tore up both nascent planetary systems like colliding buzz saws, astronomers said on Tuesday.
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Astronomy plays a vivid role in the Christmas story: Some 2,000 years ago a new star (or comet) is observed in the east and guides the three wise men to a stable in Bethlehem.
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Urbain Le Verrier, respected mathematician and astronomer, errs this time when he trusts the calculations of an amateur and declares the existence of a planet orbiting closer to the sun than Mercury.
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The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered pointing to the existence of ancient Sun cults, scientists report.
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Never mind how careful you are behind the wheel or how long you've been driving, the signs of the zodiac may be bigger factors behind your ability to avoid car crashes -- or why you have too many.
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The United Nations has proclaimed 2009 to be the International Year of Astronomy to mark the 400th anniversary of observations by Galileo that revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) said here on Thursday.
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An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and other astronomers of that
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Interesting data has been sent by the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn back to astronomers on Earth. The results provide insight into the planet&#39;s rings and how the planet has evolved lately.
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For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by Guy Perrin from the Paris Observatory/LESIA, (Meudon, France) and Stephen Ridgway from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (Tucson, Arizona, USA) has observed the close environment of
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers report.
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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.