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Stories about: International Year of Astronomy

World Celebrates 5,000 Years of Astronomy As you all know, 2009 was the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The year is unfortunately coming to a close, but numerous discoveries were made during the past 12 months, and, more importantly, a lot of new cooperations started, or continued. Under the pretense of the IYA, many research groups joined efforts for... 12 December 2009 07:04 GMT 'Reviving' Galileo's First Telescopes 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