ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
We receive the information from the first volume of ‘Ogygia‘ by Athanasios Stageiritis*, p.236, Chapter I, ‘About Hyperion‘. Continue reading “Hyperion: there has been an astronomer before the Cataclysm, Greek Mythology suggests”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Maria K. Papathanassiou. Continue reading “Archaeoastronomy in Greece: Data, Problems and Perspectives”
By Richard Stephenson
Builders putting in foundations for a primary school on the campus of
Jiaotong University in the Chinese city of Xian in 1987 called in archaeologists:
they had stumbled across an ancient tomb. No Terracotta Army greeted them
– the tomb had been looted twice already in antiquity. Continue reading “Stargazers of the Orient: A remarkable map of the stars has survived more than 2000 years to give us a picture of how Chinese astromomers saw the sky”
Ancient Greeks may have observed Halley’s comet fly by the earth some 226 years before the the existence of the most famous comet of them all was first recorded by Chinese or Babylonian observers. Continue reading “First-Ever Halley Comet Sighting: It Was All Greek”
Most asteroids and meteorites originate from the splintering of a handful of minor planets formed during the infancy of our solar system, a new study shows. Continue reading “Most of Earth’s meteorites came from five or six ancient planets”
What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two recent studies, the boundaries of our entire solar system balloon outward — and an analysis of particles rebounding off of its edges will reveal its new shape. Continue reading “As solar wind blows, our heliosphere balloons”
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