As a digression from our usual fare on the n n -Café, here’s one of my favorites, about an early theory of the Solar System, ...

In astronomy, what does retrograde mean? And what connection does it have to astrology? We explain how planets move across ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...

On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing right, with long curly tendrils of hair held in place with an ornamental headband, small dots surround the border. The other side of the coin ...

Ptolemy and the Ancient Greeks ... he lay the scientific groundwork for astronomy to progress as it has in the four plus centuries since his death. Brahe died in 1601. Sadly, Galileo published ...

This repository contains the helm charts for deploying the Astronomer Platform into a Kubernetes cluster. Astronomer is a commercial "Airflow as a Service" platform that runs on Kubernetes. Source ...

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is a text by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) in which approximations are made for the radii of the Sun and the Moon as well as their distances from the Earth. It is not ...

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey’s Box ...