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Space.com's night sky columnist Joe Rao explains what it was like to have asteroid 200009 Joerao named after him for his many years of public astronomy outreach.
Space.com's night sky columnist Joe Rao explains what it was like to have asteroid 200009 Joerao named after him for his many years of astronomy outreach with the general public.
The International Astronomical Union based in Paris named an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter after Colleen O'Hare, a retired medical lab technologist who has been promoting astronomy in Kelowna, B.C., since 2004.
Muslim Woman Takes the Science of Astrolabes to the Next Level Published January 24th, 2021 - 06:10 GMT (Shutterstock) Highlights They however took them to new heights by inventing new tools to measure and calculate the movement of stars and planets. Mariam took the science of astrolabes to the next level and over a thousand years later, she becomes a central character in the science-fiction novel Binti. Between the 8th and 15th centuries, Muslim scholars made an immense contribution toward science, inventing sophisticated tools in the fields of medicine, astronomy, physics and chemist...