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Daily Space: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

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ething variously known as the Hercules star cluster, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, or the Hercules Globular Cluster.Messier wasnt actually the first to spot M13. That credit goes to the other comet guy, Edmund Halley, who came across it in 1714. But Messier put it in the catalog,

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Jul 02, 2022

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Venus crossed the sun's face 10 years ago today. Most people alive will never see the sight again.

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Nearly 150 years earlier, the world-famous Edmund Halley had suggested that the careful timing of transits from multiple locations would allow astronomers to measure the size of the solar system. Viewing a transit from two distant places creates a baseline: The contact points, where the edge of a pl

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Jun 05, 2022

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How Solar Eclipses and Tides Proved the Earth Is Slowing Down

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In the 1690s, astronomer Edmund Halley had a problem. He was good buddies with Isaac Newton, and a decade earlier had encouraged Newton to publish his monumental "Principia," which showed just how universal the so-called "gravitational force" really was.

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Aug 17, 2017

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How Solar Eclipses Illuminate the Marvel of Science

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they built on his ideas about a rationally ordered cosmos and created a new tradition of philosophical and scientific thinking. However, it was not until more than 2,000 years later, in the early 18th century, that the first precise prediction of a solar eclipse was made by astronomer Edmund Halley.

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Aug 16, 2017

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Why People Used to Be Afraid of Solar Eclipses

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One of the scholars who epitomizes the shift from superstition to science was Edmund Halley, now known for Halley's Comet. In 1715, he published a broadside arguing that people shouldn't be afraid of an eclipse, after a prominent mathematician had published an apocalyptic-sounding pamphlet claiming

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Aug 16, 2017

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Mercury strolls across the sun May 9 and you can watch it

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Espenak, on his EclipseWise website, explains that famed astronomer Edmund Halley realized that transits yield measurements for the Suns distance and provide us a scale for the solar system. Expeditions in 1761 and 1769 to observe Venus transits produced the first good value for the Suns distance

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May 05, 2016

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Ex-Albuquerque cop accused in wife death testifies

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Edmund Halley, English astronomer (1656-1742); James Boswell, Scottish lawyer-biographer (1740-1795); Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda (1897-1945); Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis champion (1927--); Richard Dreyfuss, U.S. actor (1947--); Kate Jackson, U.S. actress (1948--); Winona Ryder

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Jul 10, 2013

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A Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets

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Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton charted and recorded its nightly positions. Edmund Halley, on his way to Rome on Royal Society business, observed its progress across the night sky with Cassini at the Paris Observatory.

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Mar 15, 2013

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