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On October 18, 1989, the Galileo Jupiter mission was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during STS-34. It was scheduled to arrive in the gas giant's orbit on December 7, 1995, but it had to follow a very complex path through the solar syste... |
20 October 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Some 234 years before the planet was officially found, Galileo may have made the earliest observations of Neptune, a new study of the famous astronomer's diary and notebooks reveals. Professor David Jamieson, the head of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, made the astonishing claim, after studying in... |
10 July 2009
02:18 GMT |
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European officials, decision makers and space authorities are all quite undecided about the faith of the Galileo satellite project, which was supposed to bring 28 observation and communication satellites in orbit as fast as possible. The system, which is part of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) class, is... |
23 June 2009
09:08 GMT |
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This evening, people in several countries will be treated to the largest astronomical event in the 400 years of the discipline. A grass-root movement will be spread around the world, in a 100-hour marathon that will hopefully involve more than 1 million individuals. Basically, amateur and professional astronomy assoc... |
2 April 2009
09:58 GMT |
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It was, indeed, some 400 years ago that astronomer Galileo made some of his first and most important observations of the solar system, identifying other planets and their moons, and making it clear once and for all that the Earth clearly revolved around the Sun, and not the other way around. Now, four centuries later... |
31 March 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Researchers from Italy and the UK are currently engaged in actions meant to grant them the possibility of harvesting DNA samples from the body of the father of modern astronomy, Galileo Galilei. It's historically known that the great scientist suffered from intermittent eye problems over the second half of his l... |
23 January 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Although generally credited as the father of astronomy, and one of the earliest observers of celestial bodies outside our planet, Galileo was not the first to observe and sketch a map of the Moon, as many believe. Rather, an Englishman, Thomas Harriot, drew the first map of portions of our natural satellite as far ba... |
15 January 2009
04:35 GMT |
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The International Year of Astronomy is well underway, and one of the initiatives meant to celebrate the 4 centuries that passed since Galileo first studied the skies, using nothing more than a basic telescope, is to attempt to rebuild that device, and to get a glimpse of how the world could be seen through the scient... |
9 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Some 400 years after Galileo Galilei made his work on the movement of planets public, the Catholic Church, through the words of Pope Benedict XVI, apologized for its mistake, namely accusing the scientist of heresy and sentencing him to house arrest for the rest of his life, in light of the fact that the Earth indeed... |
22 December 2008
08:51 GMT |
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With 2009 being labeled as the International Year of Astronomy, it is quite obvious why the next year should be named the Galileo year, after the great scientist and visionary of his time, Galileo Galilei, the author of the world's greatest discovery in the field. This is even more valid as in 2009, there w... |
18 December 2008
18:01 GMT |
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Although the space ambitions of the EU members are quite high, granting them the necessary funds still comes as a problem, since many of the EU states decided having more important issues to spend their money on.There is growing concern related to the fact that many of the EU member states still prove to be quite rel... |
29 September 2008
03:47 GMT |
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The Galileo thermometer, or thermoscope, is a device named after the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei and designed to measure temperatures with a relatively good accuracy, although today it is mostly used as a decoration item. Unlike most classical thermometers, the Galileo thermoscope relies on the buoyancy princip... |
23 July 2008
08:51 GMT |
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Along with the Colosseum in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisa is one of Italy's most recognizable symbols. It was built between 1174 and 1370 in an area with unstable ground, which has been steadily giving way under the 14,000 ton structure causing it to tilt from the original vertical position. In the 1990s, the ... |
28 May 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Every time you point the telescope towards Jupiter you'll most certainly see one of its four large satellites discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s. Usually, two or three of the moons can be easily spotted and sometimes even all four of them. On a small telescope, Jupiter's moons appear as small stars sh... |
16 May 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, revealed in an interview published yesterday that the Vatican believed that alien life might exist and that it didn't necessarily mean it contradicted the belief in God. Makes you remember the cheerful days of the middle ages, doesn't ... |
14 May 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Europe's second spacecraft of the Galileo mission has been launched successfully into space on April 27. Soon after, the GIOVE-B satellite entered the designated orbit at an altitude of 23,173 kilometers above the planet's surface and spread its solar panels so that the on board batteries could start chargi... |
7 May 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system and probably the most beautiful of all, aside Earth maybe. Its beautiful rings are simply breathtaking, thus even some of the most experienced astronomers cannot help themselves from taking a peek through the telescope from time to time to see its rings. However... |
19 March 2008
09:38 GMT |
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The second demonstrator spacecraft for Galileo, Giove-B, has been scheduled by the European Space Agency to launch somewhere in late April, in order to test key technologies to be used in the Galileo project. The main goal the European Union is hoping to achieve with the launch of the Galileo spacecraft is to create ... |
10 March 2008
09:32 GMT |
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