" This award, while certainly of major importance, never was reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, probably due to Carrington's bitter, acrimonious and public criticism of Cambridge University over the appointment of John Adams as the non-observing Director of the Cambridge Observatory ( added to Adams's pre-existing academic duties as the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry.

They even played a role in an astrophotography exercise with the 2006 Adult Astronomy Camp ending up with a picture that was featured on Astronomy Picture of the Day.

He played a pivotal role in the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging.

Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Claudius Ptolemy.

It has been identified as having " inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture.

Throughout his life Omar Khayyám was tireless in his efforts ; by day he would teach Algebra and geometry, in the evening he would attend the Seljuq court as an adviser of Malik-Shah I, and at night he would study Astronomy and complete important aspects of the Jalali calendar.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

This was followed by a long series of popular treatises in rapid succession, amongst the more important of which are Light Science for Leisure Hours and The Sun ( 1871 ); The Orbs around Us and Essays on Astronomy ( 1872 ); The Expanse of Heaven, The Moon and The Borderland of Science ( 1873 ); The Universe and the Coming Transits and Transits of Venus ( 1874 ); Our Place among Infinities ( 1875 ); Myths and Marvels of Astronomy ( 1877 ); The Universe of Stars ( 1878 ); Flowers of the Sky ( 1879 ); The Poetry of Astronomy ( 1880 ); Easy Star Lessons and Familiar Science Studies ( 1882 ); Mysteries of Time and Space and The Great Pyramid ( 1883 ); The Universe of Suns ( 1884 ); The Seasons ( 1885 ); Other Suns than Ours and Half-Hours with the Stars ( 1887 ).

The organization is responsible for the operation of several important observatories, known as " AURA centers ": the Gemini Observatory ; the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ); the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ); the Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI ); and the AURA Observatory ( AURA-O ).

His astrological text-book Liber Astronomiae (' Book of Astronomy '), written around 1277, was reputed to be " the most important astrological work produced in Latin in the 13th century ".

Defining India ’ s most ambitious space based High Energy Astronomy observatory and initiating a related activities was also an important milestone under his leadership.

First important applications will be real-time optimum calibration of global observing systems in Meteorology, Geophysics, Astronomy etc.

Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Ptolemy.

Professor Bracewell was interested in conveying an appreciation of the role of science in society to the public, in mitigating the effects of scientific illiteracy on public decision making through contact with alumni groups, and in liberal undergraduate education within the framework of the Astronomy Course Program and the Western Culture program in Values, Technology, Science and Society, in both of which he taught for some years.

The final part of the debt from the construction of the telescope, £ 50, 000, was paid off by Lord Nuffield and the Nuffield Foundation on 25 May 1960 ( partly due to the telescope's early, very public role in space probe tracking ; see below ), and Jodrell Bank observatory was renamed to the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories.

Until 1839, the Savilian Chair of Astronomy was responsible for the observatory, at this date the appointment of George Henry Sacheverell Johnson an astronomer with no observational experience caused the creation of the new role of Radcliffe Observer.

All three major international scholarly associations relate archaeoastronomy to the study of culture, using the term Astronomy in Culture or a translation.

The Astronomy Precinct was established in 1967 and is located on land protected by the Historical Preservation Act for its significance to Hawaiian culture.

Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.

In eastern Asia archaeoastronomy has developed from the History of Astronomy and much archaeoastronomy is searching for material correlates of the historical record.

The Kerckhoff Laboratory of the Biological SciencesThe Institute is organized into six primary academic divisions: Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy.

On June 4, 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a lakefront park, surrounding three of the city's main museums, each of which is of national importance: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium.

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.

The observatory is administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ).

He is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, a Distinguished Fellow and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico, and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.

He is currently the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech as well as a University Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Presidential Professor of Physics and Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Astronomy is the science of celestial bodies and their interactions in space.

Astronomer Phil Plait takes a similar attitude in his " Bad Astronomy " website, a regular feature of which is reviews discussing the scientific mistakes in popular movies and TV shows.

The first mention of a series approximating Bode's Law is found in David Gregory's The Elements of Astronomy, published in 1715.

Vela is referenced in the Astronomy Picture of the Day ( APOD ) for 2011 September 5:

* The Baghdad School of Astronomy is opened by al-Mamun.

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

Gregory Benford ( born January 30, 1941 in Mobile, Alabama ) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

A standard set of subcategories is used by astronomical journals to split up the subject of Galactic Astronomy:

It is therefore useful to sub-divide this branch into Near-Extragalactic Astronomy and Far-Extragalactic Astronomy.

The organisation is mission center for several key current missions ( Kepler Mission, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )) and a major contributor to the '" new exploration focus '" as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle and Ares I crew launch vehicle projects.

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ) is a joint venture of the U. S. and German aerospace agencies, NASA and the DLR to make an infrared telescope platform that can fly at altitudes high enough to be in the infrared-transparent regime above the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere.

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects ( such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies ); the physics, chemistry, and evolution of such objects ; and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth ( such as supernovae, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic background radiation ).

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences.

Astronomy in medieval Islam was advanced by Al-Battani, who improved the precision of the measurement of the precession of the Earth's axis.