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Astronomy:Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον), "star", and nomos (νόμος), "law") is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). ...
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astrology:Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details can provide information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters. A practitioner of astrology is called an astrologer.
horoscope:a prediction of someones future based on the relative positions of the planets
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Winter Solstice:December 22, when the sun is at its southernmost point
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Summer solstice:June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point
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ASTRONOMY

What is your birth sign , load an image of the actual constellation and its symbol, find the dates that fit?

Aquarius,

Find any constellation that you did not know before.

Andromeda


KEPLER

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Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, in Weil der Stadt, Württemberg, in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality.His parents were poor. But his evident intelligence earned him a scholarship to the University of Tübingen to study for the Lutheran ministry.Kepler's family was Lutheran. " In 1609 he published Astronomia Nova, delineating his discoveries, which are now called Kepler's first two laws of planetary motion. And what is just as important about this work, "it is the first published account wherein a scientist documents how he has coped with the multitude of imperfect data to forge a theory of surpassing accuracy" (O. Gingerich in foreword to Johannes Kepler New Astronomy translated by W. Donahue, Cambridge Univ Press, 1992), a fundamental law of nature. Today we call this the scientific method."from;Nasa gov

"His wife and two sons had recently died. He remarried happily, but had many personal and financial troubles. Two infant daughters died and Kepler had to return to Württemburg where he successfully defended his mother against charges of witchcraft. In 1619 he published Harmonices Mundi, in which he describes his "third law."" from; Nasa.gov He was exiled because of this book he was also excommunicated. Johannes Kepler died in Regensburg in 1630.

Find what ever you can on his book Kepler's Somnium: The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy . Here is some of the book to see how he wrote. Clik here

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Find the LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION, you may use a link

I. The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.
II. The line joining the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times as the planet travels around the ellipse.

III. The ratio of the squares of the revolutionary periods for two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their semimajor axes:

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True and false
Nicholas Copernicus was the first to say that the earth was not the center of the universe, that the sun and planets did not revolve around the earth True

Kepler said"Geometry existed before creation...Geometry is God himself" True

The dark ages were a time of great scientific achievement and human growth False

Keppler was both exiled and excommunicated for his writings and theories. True

At keplers time, they believed that there were 9 planets.False
Martin Luther ( the founder of the religion of Lutheran) called Kepler " a fool" True

Diastoer is Greek for "bad Star" True

Planet is Greek for "wander" True

The big dipper has seven stars in its constellation True