Articles Tagged with astronomy

Colors of the stars

Poetic and precise

How do you describe a color?

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The long hours

Time of the season

Some hours used to be longer than others.  Really.

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Alphabetical order

An historical mistake

We highlight an instance in which not knowing one’s history led to mistakes in astrophysics.

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The last hurrah of the silver plate

Hunting oxymorons

We recall an example of cutting-edge research using obsolete means.

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Make a map

Charts, surveys and catalogs

We notice the importance of what and where.

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The prepared mind

Learning from an observation

What we see depends on what we’re looking for.

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Learning from the Great Conjunction

A crucial experiment

We investigate a possible event in ancient science.

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Four elements, four humors

Before the revolution

We conclude that it can be useful to teach something that is actually wrong.

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It used to be hard

Now it’s easy

Are some things too easy to do nowadays?

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Industrial science

Gravity’s next step

We notice an area of science where theories are so numerous a system has been imposed to keep track.

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