88 Officially Recognized Constellations - NASA
Latin Name English Name or Description; Andromeda: Princess of Ethiopia: Antlia: Air pump: Apus: Bird of Paradise: Aquarius ...
StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers - NASA
2018年5月14日 · StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers ages 5-13 to learn about the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, and the universe beyond.
StarChild: Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) - NASA
IRAS' mission was to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. It was equipped with a special infrared telescope to scan the sky. IRAS was the first satellite to discover a comet. The comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock was named for the probe and two co-discovering astronomers.
What are constellations? - NASA
StarChild Question of the Month for May 1999 Question: What are constellations? Answer: There is a word for a pattern of stars in the sky which appears to be so distinctive that it is easily identifiable and remembered.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - NASA
Jocelyn Bell received her Ph.D. in radio astronomy from Cambridge University in 1968. She married during that same year and changed her name to Burnell. Since leaving Cambridge in 1968, Dr. Bell Burnell has studied the sky in almost every region of the electromagnetic spectrum. She has received many honors and awards for her contributions to ...
Nicolaus Copernicus - NASA
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Thorn, Poland on February 19, 1473. He was the son of a wealthy merchant. After his father's death, he was raised by his mother's brother, a bishop in the Catholic Church. Copernicus studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Krakow.
Caroline Herschel - NASA
William's hobby was astronomy and he devoted most of his free time to making more and more powerful telescopes with which to look deeper into space. William's reputation as a telescope maker grew to such an extent that he quit his job as a musician and devoted all of his time to the making of telescopes and to astronomy. Caroline began to help ...
Parallax - NASA
Parallax. Astronomers derive distances to the nearest stars (closer than about 100 light-years) by a method called stellar parallax.
StarChild: The Solar System - NASA
What is the solar system? It is our Sun and everything that travels around it. Our solar system is elliptical in shape.
StarChild: Cosmology - NASA
Galileo's discoveries forever changed the face of astronomy. The beginnings of modern science can be attributed to Galileo and to the British genius Isaac Newton. Newton was born in the same year that Galileo died. Isaac Newton took known facts and used mathematics to explain them.