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History and Science of Astronomy

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences dating back to prehistoric cultures who left astronomical artifacts and early civilizations that performed methodical night sky observations. However, astronomy did not develop into a modern science until the invention of the telescope. While astronomy has historically included diverse disciplines like astrometry and calendar making, it is now often considered synonymous with astrophysics, involving the study of celestial objects, their physics, chemistry, and evolution through phenomena originating outside Earth's atmosphere.

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History and Science of Astronomy

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences dating back to prehistoric cultures who left astronomical artifacts and early civilizations that performed methodical night sky observations. However, astronomy did not develop into a modern science until the invention of the telescope. While astronomy has historically included diverse disciplines like astrometry and calendar making, it is now often considered synonymous with astrophysics, involving the study of celestial objects, their physics, chemistry, and evolution through phenomena originating outside Earth's atmosphere.

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Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences.

Prehistoric cultures left behind astronomical artifacts such as the Egyptian monuments and Nubian monuments, and early civilizations such as the Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Indians, Iranians and Maya performed methodical observations of thenight sky. However, the invention of the telescope was required before astronomy was able to develop into a modern science. Historically, astronomy has included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy, and the making of calendars, but professional astronomy is [2] nowadays often considered to be synonymous with astrophysics. Astronomy is a natural science that is the study of celestial objects (such as moons, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies), the physics, chemistry,mathematics, and evolution of such objects, and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth, including supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic background [1] radiation. A related but distinct subject, cosmology, is concerned with studying the universe as a whole.

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