At a distance of approximately 640 light years, we can find one of the biggest and brightest orange/red stars in our night sky. It is known as alpha-Orionis, or, more famously, Betelgeuse. Located in the Orion constellation, it represents the shoulder of the hunter. Despite being so far away, it is very bright because of its incredible size.
He stated in his work “I wanted to become a theologian, and for long I was uneasy, but now, see how through my efforts God is being celebrated in Astronomy.” In this work, he considered Sun being the center of the system and planets revolving around it in circles in their orbits. Though, he gave the wrong description of planetary orbits.
Here are 5 Astronomy Books to Start your Journey of Universe with lots of fun on along. Thankfully in today’s world, we have a number of resources available which may help us in learning such deep concepts and complex structures of the Universe like Stars, planets, galaxies, nebulas, and supernova and one of the most controversial the black hole.
The focus of the programme is to stimulate young minds according to the upcoming opportunities in space technology. The programme will try to focus on the basic understanding of space technology, space science and the applications of these technologies in the field of aerospace industry.
Binary Stars is a star system in which two stars which are gravitationally bound, orbit around a common center of mass, obeying Kepler’s laws of motion.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” in which he explained that many suspected, ‘the sun is at the center of the universe and earth moves around it along with all the other planets,’ which is known as the Heliocentric Model.