A supernova remnant (SNR) discovered by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of Western Sydney University displays an ...

Proclus’s visionary insights into planetary satellites reveal a divine cosmic order that foreshadowed modern astronomical ...

In a universe renowned for its chaotic and irregular structures, the recent discovery of an almost perfectly sphere like object has left astronomers both intrigued and puzzled. Named Teleios, derived ...

Atlas was one of the Titans in Greek mythology, son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. After the war against the Olympian gods, Zeus condemned him to hold up the vault of ...

the Greek astronomer Hipparchus helped establish a new way of understanding the motions of the stars that persists to this day. By imagining Earth at the center of a celestial sphere, he used a ...

Download PDF A mechanical model of the Universe attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician and polymath ... generally assumed that Archimedes’ sphere — if it existed — displayed ...

Regardless of any object’s true distance, simply think of it as existing on the inside of the celestial sphere. If you’ve been to a planetarium before, you’re familiar with this simplification.