Astronomy

Reported by: Cheniel Nica

Robles
BSBA II
Submitted to: Mrs. Catalina
Punzalan

Astronomycame

from the Greek

words astron means "star" and nomy from nomos,"law" or
"culture" means "law of the stars"
or "culture of the stars"
depending on the translation.

Astronomycan

be considered
as the oldest of all sciences.

Astronomy

is a natural science
that is the study of celestial
objects(such
as moons, planets, stars, nebula
e, and galaxies),
the physics, chemistry,
mathematics, and evolution of
such objects, and phenomena
that originate outside
the atmosphere of Earth.

The

history of astronomy
stretches back in time to
the beginnings of
civilization

Mankind

has always been

fascinated by stars.

Before

the dawn of
history someone noticed
that certain celestial
bodies moved in orderly
and predictable paths &
astronomy-an-ancientwas born.

The

earliest recorded
astronomical observations
were made by the Chinese,
Egyptians,and
Babylonians, who however
made no real effort to
interpret what they saw.

Many

important
astronomical
observations were made
by the Greeks during a
period of roughly 800
years from 600 BC to
AD 200.

It

deals with the

structure of the solar
system which includes
the nine planets and
their satellites, the sun,
the stars, meteors,
asteroids and comets.

Astronomy

is the
branch of science
which deals with
the study of
heavenly bodies,
their structure and
their motion.

In

early times, astronomy

only comprised the
observation and predictions
of the motions of objects
visible to the naked eye.
In some locations, such as
Stonehenge early cultures
assembled massive artifacts
that possibly had some
astronomical purpose.

Before

tools such as the

telescope were invented,
early study of the stars
had to be conducted from
the only vantage points
available, namely tall
buildings and high ground
using the naked eye.

In

addition to their
ceremonial uses, these
observatories could be
employed to determine the
seasons, an important factor
in knowing when to plant
crops, as well as in
understanding the length of
the year.

Whoweretheearly
astronomers?

ThalesofMiletus-was
the first of the Greek
philosophers. He was
accredited with the
predicting an eclipse in
585 BC.

Aristachusof
Samos-was one of
the first people to
state that the Earth
turns on its axis
and orbits the Sun.

Erastothenes- was the

one who measured the
circumference of the earth,
which he calculated to be
40,000 km. This is in close
agreement with the
modern value of 40,007
km.

NicholausCopernicus-a
Polish astronomer argued that
the Sun, not the earth is at
the center of the solar
system.
ClaudiusPtolemy-was very
popular for his geocentric
model of the solar system.

TychoBrahe-danish
astronomer was the last of
the great astronomers to
rely on the naked eye, &
he improved every
previous astronomical
observations.

JohannesKepler-first person
to show that the planets move
around the sun in elliptical obits.
GalileoGalilei-an Italian
astronomer, developed the
astronomical telescope & used it
to discover & study many
structures in the universe.
SirIsaacNewton-the laws of
motion.

Today, astronomy
is continuous
progression,
discovering something
new in the universe
almost everyday.

Scientist

have
invented the Hubble
Space Telescope
which could get a
clearer view of the
structures in the
universe.

Many

space
probes have been
sent to various
planets to study
its composition
and structure.

SomeFactsaboutSpace
LargestPlanet- Jupiter,
with an equatorial diameter
of 88,732 miles.
SmallestPlanet-
Mercury, with an equatorial
diameter of 3031 miles.

DensestPlanet- Earth,
with an average density of
about 5 times that of
water.
LightestPlanet-Saturn,
with an average density
about 0.72 times that of
water.

ClosestStar
(excludingthesun)-
Triple star system Alpha
and Proxima Centauri,
about 4.3 light years
from earth.
MostLuminousStar-
Sirius or Dogstar.

LargestAsteroid-Ceres,
located between Mars &
Jupiter, with a diameter of
636 miles.
Farthestobjectvisible
tothenakedeye-
Andromedagalaxy,2.2
million light-years from
earth.