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Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.

Did You Also Know:
The Palomar scope, equipped with the '4 Shooter' CCD detector is sensitive enough to pick up the glow of a cigarette at 700 miles distance.

Columbus was not unusual in believing that the Earth was round - it was common knowledge among navigators. What was unusual is that he thought the Earth was small - small enough for a circumnavigation to be practical.

When the blank for the large Palomar mirror was being transported, it was encased in armour, in case anyone took a shot at it.

Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
Despite being closest to the sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet. The hottest planet is Venus (at 462 Celsius).

Did You Also Know:
While most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, 1983 TB gets as close as 9 million miles from the Sun.

Galileo did NOT invent the refracting telescope. But he did everything he could to encourage people in the belief that he had.

When the blank for the large Palomar mirror was being transported, it was encased in armour, in case anyone took a shot at it.

Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.

Did You Also Know:
While most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, 1983 TB gets as close as 9 million miles from the Sun.

Guillaume le Gentile was perhaps the most unlucky astronomer ever. He went to India to observe a transit of Venus, but was becalmed. Her returned a few years later but was clouded out. He was then stricken with dysentery and came home on a Spanish warship, which lost its mast off the Cape of Good Hope, and got blown off course past the Azores, before limping into Cadiz. He finally got home after nearly 12 years of absence, only to discover he had been declared dead, and his estate had been divided up amongst creditors and relatives. He promptly renounced astronomy and settled down to write his memoirs. Cassini praised Le Gentile's character but considered that "in his sea voyages he had contracted a little unsociability and brusqueness".

When the blank for the large Palomar mirror was being transported, it was encased in armour, in case anyone took a shot at it.

Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
Mars is red because its soil is very rusty (iron oxide).

Did You Also Know:
The Palomar scope, equipped with the '4 Shooter' CCD detector is sensitive enough to pick up the glow of a cigarette at 700 miles distance.

Columbus was not unusual in believing that the Earth was round - it was common knowledge among navigators. What was unusual is that he thought the Earth was small - small enough for a circumnavigation to be practical.

The Palomar scope, equipped with the '4 Shooter' CCD detector is sensitive enough to pick up the glow of a cigarette at 700 miles distance.

Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
Saturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than all the known reserves on Earth.

Did You Also Know:
While most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, 1983 TB gets as close as 9 million miles from the Sun.

Galileo did NOT invent the refracting telescope. But he did everything he could to encourage people in the belief that he had.

When the blank for the large Palomar mirror was being transported, it was encased in armour, in case anyone took a shot at it.

Astronomy Trivia
Did You Know:
The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.

Did You Also Know:
While most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, 1983 TB gets as close as 9 million miles from the Sun.

Names of asteroids were originally taken from God's and Goddesses, but these ran out long ago. There are asteroids called Lennon, McCartney, Edna, Bertha, Geranium, Petunia, Chicago, Granule, Gogol, Laputa, Mark Twain, Karl Marx, NORC, Libya, Atlantis, Utopia, Transylvania, Paradise, Rumpelstilz, Evita, Fanatica, Fanny, Piccolo, Requiem, Lucifer, Tolkein, Echo, Dali, Retsina, Zulu, Limpopo, Bach, Chaucher, Nemo, Smiley, and Mr Spock.

The Palomar scope, equipped with the '4 Shooter' CCD detector is sensitive enough to pick up the glow of a cigarette at 700 miles distance.