Astronomy
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1) Composed c.1500 CE in kerala,Tantrasamgraha is an astronomical treatise took world trigonometry to new heights https://t.co/eObA1yfZe5
Are 2 eclipses that are 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days apart from each other part of "evoultion" over 500 million trillion zillion years? Coincidence maybe? Except the...
Great American Eclipse was 8/21/17 3 yrs, 3 mos, 3 wks, 3 days after that, the corona vax is rolled out on 12/14/2020 during a Southern American Solar Eclipse. 3 yrs, 3 mos, 3 wks...
apashyaM tvAvarohantaM divitaH pR^ithivIm ava || apashyam asyantaM rudraM nIlagrIvaM shikhaNDinam ||1|| These words from the shruti of the AtharvaNa-s came to our mind. With that t...
One year is exactly 365.2422 days long. More than two thousand years ago a Greek astronomer called Hipparchus calculated the length of a year to within 0.005 of that figure. And...
Yes, I've seen the headlines saying that black holes may be dark energy. I think that's extremely implausible. A brief 🧵 1/ https://t.co/myrZO7PFSi
Got a fairly good view of the tail of C/2022 E3 (ZTF): it was in almost what the H of yore would have called a ketu-grahayuddha with ma~Ngala. Its eccentricity is very nearly 1: ab...
over the next few days if you wake up early and look towards Polaris you’ll see a fuzzy, greenish comet Medieval Muslim observers called comets “tailed stars” and recorded their a...
70 billion solar neutrinos pass through your thumbnail, undetected, every second. https://t.co/epJONDDYQG https://t.co/UPS6tmRpyT
What are dark matter and dark energy? https://t.co/VrnkUJaA3G
The Wintermaker (🧵) The Ojibwe call Orion, ‘Kabibona’kan’, which means the ‘Winter Maker’, as its presence in the night sky heralds the coming of winter. Orion is the marker for t...
@elonmusk @weirdterrifying When you visit the Dandra Temple in Qena governorate and enter the main cabin of the temple you will stand dazzled in front of the Temple's secrets Which...
@elonmusk @weirdterrifying Dandra Temple How did the ancient Egyptians do it!!! Im going to take you on a tour with me and those who want to know some details inside this fascina...
2023 1st Quarter Chinese Spaceflight News, A Thread: https://t.co/tCd4sxnInN
Today has come to be accepted as “New Year’s day 2023” but for Hindus is: 1. Shukla paksha (bright half Moon) Dashami (10th part) with the 2. Sun at Purvashadha fixed star in Dha...
Oh come now (you will say) hear stars! It's clear You've lost your mind!" I´ll tell you anyway, I often wake to hear what they will say, I push my windows open, pale with tear http...
Since I'm in Pudecherry, India, let me tell you a bit about the world's unluckiest astronomer, one Guillaume Le Gentil. This is a crazy story, so pull up a chair. 1/ https://t.co/...
54 years ago #Today, one of the most famous images ever taken was snapped from the orbit of the Moon. Now known as "Earthrise", with modern digital technology, the iconic image --...
This orbe of starres fixed infinitely up extendeth hit selfe in altitude sphericallye, and therefore immovable the pallace of foelicitye garnished with perpetuall shininge glorious...
@V_Astroyog For thay you need to check solar cycle of last 300-400 years where it is clearly visible that Sunspots are appearing less, hence we are entering into cold time.
-How the moon saved Christopher Columbus in 1504- If you happen to see the moon turn red during tonight's lunar eclipse – the longest of this century – spare a thought for Christ...
#Thread on what was happening in the world during passage of #KaIiyuga "A Celestial Clock Reset" caused by planetary conjunction dating 18th Feb 3102 BCE *Repost of earlier tweet...
LOCATION OF वैकुंठ लोक ACCORDING TO VISHNU PURAN #Thread #Twitter https://t.co/Vx0RTmqGf2
#Saturn Returns in #Aquarius in 2023 Saturn's will transit in Aquarius sign from 17th January 2023 onward, will stay there till 28th March 2025. Here are dates of Saturn major d...