“The city [Ephesus] was filled with confusion, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions.” ―Acts 19:29 ...

Whenever I want to refresh my lunar observing, to see the Moon in new and uncommon ways, I wait for its phase to wane and point my telescope to the lunar terminator — that bleak and shadowy domain ...

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When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it—the usual answer is Copernicus.

The Aristarchus plateau is an area of the Moon ripe for future exploration due to the diversity of its impact and volcanic materials. It features a prominent crater so bright it’s not only visible ...

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flew over the moon at just 16.2 miles up to capture shots of the huge Aristarchus crater on the moon - a feature so massive it's visible to the naked eye from Earth ...

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ARISTARCHUS, who flourished in the first half of the third century B.C., is chiefly known as the only philosopher or astronomer of antiquity who taught that the earth moves, round the sun. This ...