The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died on October 24th, 1601. In 1901, on the 300th anniversary of his death, the bodies of Tycho Brahe and his wife Kirstine were exhumed in Prague. They had been embalmed and were in remarkably good condition, but the astronomer’s...
Apus is a faint constellation in the southern sky. It represents the bird of paradise, found in New Guinea. The name was given to this sky area at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first documented in a 17th-century celestial atlas included in Johann...
Did you know that humans have been living in the International Space Station, uninterrupted, for twenty years? Ever since the first crew members docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2000, more than 240 people have visited this outpost,...
Meteors are also known by many people as “shooting of falling stars”. They originate when the Earth passes near or through the leftover debris from a comet or asteroid’s orbit and those debris particles hit Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. When many of these meteors...
On this day October 10 in 1846 – British astronomer, William Lassell discovered Neptune’s Moon Triton. This discovery came only 17 days after the planet itself was discovered. After Herschel had learned of the discovery of Neptune – he contacted his...
