By Tim Carr
At the western edge of the Sea of Storms on the Moon, there is a crater named Hevel. Seventy miles wide, its walls are 6,000 ft high in places and a good telescope will show a fine system of rilles on the crater floor. It is named after a German astronomer called Johannes Hevel (or Hewelcke) … Read the rest of this article
By Tim Carr
Being a contemporary of Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley is not a recipe for fame but James Bradley was not the sort to worry about such things. His contribution to
modernizing astronomy speaks for itself.
Born in 1693, he studied theology at Oxford but developed a fascination for astronomy from his uncle, James Pound, who was a … Read the rest of this article
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Animations of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing
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