#Astronomy

The astronomer Vera Rubin was born #OTD in 1928. Her work on galactic rotation curves became one of the main pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, and
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Venus has finished its brief but very photogenic dance with the Pleiades, but don’t put those telescopes away just yet! We’re headed into prime time to see an elusive phenomenon
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Happy Thursday, friends. Today we get 21 more minutes of daylight. Two more minutes than yesterday, and 21 more minutes than December 21. Tomorrow marks the beginning of a "new
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Some sad astronomy news: The wonderful and enormous 305-meter Arecibo radio telescope has sustained so much damage from broken cables that it has to be decomissioned.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-giant-arecibo-radio-telescope-to-be-deco
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Happy solstice! Today’s #GeoAdvent treat is especially for the day that’s in it. This is my (non physical geographer!) explanation of solstices. #LoveGeography A #solstice is a point in the
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Do u have any better theory sir? To explain the reason behind the reason, an infinite loop. Even science can't prove how come the universe was created. They say Big
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Algebra (Bijaganita) came from India and was described by Al-Khwarizmi based on translations from Sanskrit. European historians then called him the "inventor of Algebra."In @MeruPrastara's upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan,
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Thanks @beckyferreira for this nice piece quoting me and not just my infamous tweet. To temper things down (because they got out of control, seriously): I don't hate @elonmusk and
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Seriously y’all, this would be like getting a PhD in physics and publicly INSISTING gravity acts at a distance instantaneously due to the Newtonian description, rather than at the speed
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Physicist Karl Jansky was born #OTD in 1905. While searching for the source of radio hiss that interfered with transatlantic phone calls for Bell Labs, he discovered that astrophysical objects
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In 1962, astronomers found an object so bizarre they had *no idea* what it could be. When they figured it out through a clever trick of the sky, they opened
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Time to talk about tough stuff.I am an advocate for suicide prevention, particularly in my local area. Coonabarabran, where I live, has a higher rate of suicide than the national
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Facts that they never taught you but needs to teach our Indian Youth now.1. Father of Astronomy: Aryabhatta ; work - Aryabhattiyam2. Father of Astrology: Varahamihira , works; Panchasiddhantika, Bruhat
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Conventional wisdom says that more education is better.But I think we need less. People should be able to find their first jobs with 12-18 months of vocational training. Then, once
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1/ I've been asked a few times in recent years about current best estimates of the number of stars in our Milky Way (MW) galaxy. I'll show my estimate here
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How Bharat educated the world:The story starts from 5th century when feudalism was growing fast in the world, Bharat was epicenter of civilization,Romans got collapsed in West and onslaught of
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