Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences. The early civilizations in recorded history made methodical observations of the night sky. These include the Babylonians, Greeks, Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Maya, and many ancient indigenous peoples of the Americas. In the past, astronomy included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial navigation,…
Just imagine that when you gaze at the night sky, instead of one moon, you see a lot of moons – some big and some small. This could be a very real scenario if you were on Jupiter. Jupiter has got 79 known moons. Four of them are very big…
You’d probably be scared if I told you a huge asteroid is going to collide with our planet sometime in the future, right? Of course you’d be, anyone would be. Now forget the asteroid, what if I told you an entire galaxy is coming your way, racing towards you at…
Do you ever just look at the moon & say to it “Wait you weren’t like this a few days back, did you just change shape?” Well, we have all at some point been amazed at how the moon appeared to go from nothing to a thin ‘C’, to a…