Discoveries about dark matter, high-speed gas clouds, and a small disk around the core are now leading scientists to a new understanding of how our galaxy formed and the way it works, by John S. Gallagher III, Rosemary Wyse, and Robert Benjamin. Our understanding of the Milky Way has come a long way from the time people wove a story about the milk of a goddess spilled across the heavens. About 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei aimed a primitive telescope toward that area and wrote that through it he could resolve many more stars than with his naked eye. That simple observation started astronomers on a quest to understand our galaxy's structure, and the story continues to evolve today.
2. At a critical point in the life of a star like the Sun rotation stops 'slowing down', according to research published in the journal Nature by University of Birmingham scientist . This discoveries challenges existing theories and has implications for our understanding of how the Sun and other stars influence their local environments, including planets, as they age. …show more content…
The book impressed the most impressive astronomer of the day, Tycho Brahe, and two men began what quickly became a tempestuous collaboration. Brahe had accumulated 20 years of precise observations and needed someone with Kepler's mathematical prowess to make sense of it. Kepler promised he could solve the orbit of Mars within 8 days. Mars was particularly difficult because the observations varied from Tycho's calculations more than any of the planets. Instead, the task took nearly about 8 years and more than 900 pages of calculations before he wrapped it up.Johannes Kepler's last work, Somnium ("The Dream") was
2. At a critical point in the life of a star like the Sun rotation stops 'slowing down', according to research published in the journal Nature by University of Birmingham scientist . This discoveries challenges existing theories and has implications for our understanding of how the Sun and other stars influence their local environments, including planets, as they age. …show more content…
The book impressed the most impressive astronomer of the day, Tycho Brahe, and two men began what quickly became a tempestuous collaboration. Brahe had accumulated 20 years of precise observations and needed someone with Kepler's mathematical prowess to make sense of it. Kepler promised he could solve the orbit of Mars within 8 days. Mars was particularly difficult because the observations varied from Tycho's calculations more than any of the planets. Instead, the task took nearly about 8 years and more than 900 pages of calculations before he wrapped it up.Johannes Kepler's last work, Somnium ("The Dream") was