What does Astronomy means?
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"Astronomy is often called the oldest of the sciences. Whether this is true or not is a matter of some conjecture. What is true is that throughout recorded history Man has a shown a fascination for the heavens and the arrangement of the stars, the literal meaning of "astronomy" in Greek. Today, astronomy normally refers to the systematic observations of heavenly bodies, while astrophysics refers to the branch of science that attempts to understand these observations using more fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics. Some people make this distinction; others use "astronomy" and "astrophysics" interchangeably. \nIt is often felt that astronomy as a scientific discipline emerged from the Babylonian culture. It was the Babylonians who first developed the mathematics necessary to make accurate predictions from the observed patterns on the sky. There is no doubt, however, that many other cultures may have used astronomical observations for time keeping purposes and perhaps even to ascertain directions for navigation."
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ASTRONOMY is a map of the sky...\n\nASTROLOGY is using planetary positions to predict the future (which is BS)
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A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun. Unlike a planet, a star generates energy through nuclear fusion and therefore emits light. All stars except the Sun appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere and their distance from us. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.
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Astronomical term based on the Latin\nAnte Meridian\nPost Meridian
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Astrology is a science twisted into an Art. It can tell you where particular stars will be at a particular time in the future. The rest is conjecture built on the basis of data you provide and some cross checking of the Mathematical projection . Don't depend too much on it for accuracy. Modern Psychology and general knowledge can give better results in predicting what will happen to you.
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No it is not a science. Astronomy which is study of universe and its component is a science.\nEven, if outer planet or galaxy have an influence on our planet, it is impossible that they have an influence of a single human or so light
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Astrology is a guide and a framework.  You can refer to it but don't base your decisions in life wholly in it.  I guess an analogy would be like the weather forecast.  If the forecast says it's going to be rainy today, if you want to go on a picnic, go ahead and do it but then bring an umbrella just in case.  Astrology just lets you know that you'd be better off with an umbrella with you.
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There are a few measurements that astronomers/cosmologist use to describe the great distances of space.\n\nHere are a few:\n\nLightyear - The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion (9.46 × 10^12) kilometers or 5.88 trillion (5.88 × 10^12) miles. \n\nAstronomical Unit - A unit of length used in measuring astronomical distances within the solar system equal to the mean distance from Earth to the sun, approximately 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).\n\nParsec - A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is one second of arc and equal to 3.258 light-years, 3.086 × 10^13 kilometers, or 1.918 × 10^13 miles.
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"Con-" means together and "stellar" means to do with stars so "constellation" means a group of stars, taken together as a whole, because they are in much the same line of sight as one another, as seen from Earth. \n\nThat doesn't mean they are near one another in space. eg in Orion, the two brightest stars Sirius and Betelgeuse are our near neighbours, but the other stars in Orion are much further away.\n\nIn hundreds of thousands of years' time, the motion of stars will mean the constellations will then look rather different from now. Polaris may no longer be the North Pole Star for example.\n\nConstellations are simply chance arrangements of stars that made patterns to the eye, which when the Ancients looked at the Heavens, they  interpreted as mythological creatures and Gods and Heroes. The Chinese, similarly, thought a solar eclipse was a Dragon eating the Sun.\n\nThe members of a constellation have no connection with one another. The order we see amongst them is imposed by the human mind.
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What does this have to do with "Astronomy & Space"?
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It is an approximate way of measuring how big or bright or heavy something is.\n\nThe term comes from the brightness of stars. The brightest star in the sky is Sirius and there are about another dozen almost as bright (Vega, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse etc) that are collectively known as first magnitude stars. Not quite so bright are the second magnitude stars (eg a coupl of stars in The Plough are 2nd Magnitude, and so on down to the 5th and 6th magnitude stars, such as members of The Pleiades, which are only visible to the naked eye on bright, clear nights. And then even fainter stars that can only be seen with binoculars or a small telescope or a huge radio telescope.\n\nThe point is that star brightness is described in categories, in bands, which share similar properties eg "only able to be seen when there is a full moon out" or "supernovae". And it doesn't need to be more precise than that.\n\nThe phrase "to the nearest order of magnitude" is used widely outside of astronomy to indicate an approximate idea of what to expect, eg "How big a fine will I get for a parking offence? £100?"\n\nThe questioner is wanting to be reassured it is not £1,000 but more like £50 - £150.
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Exploring outer space is something we all do when we look at the stars at night, or the sun during the day.  I'm not a college educated person, but I know in my heart that the creation of what I see out there isn't all God is limited to.  He/She might have lots of populated 'earths' out there among the millions of planets that circle the stars eg suns.  I hope you find your answer
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An equinox in astronomy is the moment when the Sun passes over the equator. The event occurs twice a year, around March 21 and September 23. The word equinox derives from the Latin word for equal night. The equinoxes are the two days each year when the middle of the Sun is an equal amount of time above and below the horizon for every location on Earth.\n\nIn the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox is known as the vernal equinox and the September equinox is the autumnal equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere, the names are reversed.
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The galaxy is everything you see at night when you look up in the sky. Stars, planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, comets, or any other terrestrial body. I think there's just one black hole at the middle of the galaxy.
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Numerology and Astrology are historically related to  Science and Astronomy. \n\nA very good question. Astronomy is the physical science of learning about our universe, how do planets and stars and solar systems and galaxies form. How long do they last? Where are they going. It is full of beauty and amazing, almost magical truths.\n\nAstrology is an occult or magical belief that the stars, planets, sun and moon effect or influence our daily lives here on earth. Some of the great astronomers and scientists of ancient times, even Kepler and Newton believed in the ideas of astrology and numerology.\n\nNow to answer your question. Your date of birth is hard to interpret because it might mean October 2nd or February 10th different countries use different ways of writing dates. Also Indian or Vedic Astrology and numerology are VERY different than Western Astrology.\n\nYou might like the Vedic site below. Using "mathpatiprakash" as the input it gives your name number as 2. And among other interpretations says your best professions would be working with (or as) Diplomats, arbitrators, real estate, salesmen, politicians, teachers, researchers, reformers.\n\nUsing Feb 10 1971 it computes your psychic number as   1 and your destiny number as 2!
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A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. The most familiar and closest star to the Earth is the Sun. Unlike a planet, from which most light is reflected, a star emits light because of its intense heat. Scientifically, stars are defined as self-gravitating spheres of plasma in hydrostatic equilibrium, which generate their own energy through the process of nuclear fusion. Stellar astronomy is the study of stars.
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It's not considered a *formal* science even though Astronomy heavily factors into how it is used. It is considered more of an *art* because psychological characteristics and patterns are applied to certain planetary positions. This is why some people think its BS.\nBut I'm an Aquarian, and like you very intelligent and curious and open-minded about the world around us, so look into it further. You won't be disappointed.