astronomy Archive

AncientPages.com - On March 25, 1655, a Dutch amateur astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, discovered Saturn's satellite Titan, named for its grand size (half that of the Earth's) and thought

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. Babylonians and Sumerians contributed to some of

AncientPages.com - Ancient Babylonians were excellent astronomers who wrote down their observations on cuneiform tablets. By studying ancient records of lunar and solar eclipses carved in clay tablets, dating back

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Why has our week 7 days? The length of our day, month, and the year is based on astronomical observations. However, why we

AncientPages.com - Of course, today we are used to a "week" as a 7-day period, but over the course of history the weeks have been as diverse as the

AncientPages.com - On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Earth, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the Hubble Space Telescope. This image of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

AncientPages.com - An analysis of three published and two unpublished cuneiform tablets from the British Museum has revealed that Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the motions of Jupiter

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The modern world likes to take credit for many technological inventions, but we fail to mention that often many of these “discoveries” are nothing

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1943, an ancient papyrus was bought by the Cairo museum. It was written in Hieratic and although portions of it were eaten away

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nimrud lens is 3,000-year-old object that could re-write the history of science. Although the telescope was officially invented in the 16th century,