It was 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei opened the window to the skies with a telescope In 1609 Johannes Kepler published his Astronomia Nova and in the proces s provided us with a new understanding ...

Johannes Kepler's 442nd birthday is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. The illustration shows the famous astronomer with a small blue planet orbiting both his face and the sun in the centre of the ...

The International Astronomy Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have designated this year as the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in tribute to ...

Zielona Gora, Poland—The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) arrived in this forested region to serve his last employer exactly 380 years ago—reason enough for some two dozen science ...

The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Winter 2019), pp. 75-90 (16 pages) Johannes Kepler accepted Tycho Brahe's claim that the Copernican hypothesis required all stars to be giant, ...

Why is it that one always hears about the notorious trials of Galileo and the errors made by (one faction of) the Catholic Church (on a sub-magisterial, sub-infallible level) about science in the ...

Somewhat eclipsed in popular culture by his great Italian contemporary Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler is finally achieving the iconic status he has long held in science. In 2009, the ...

Introduction : astronomy before Kepler -- Kepler's early life -- Graz (1594-1600), the mystery of the universe -- Kepler and Tycho -- Prague (1600-1612), the new astronomy -- Prague, many new things - ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...