#astronomy

Stories tagged “astronomy” in the Weird Science History archive — 6 stories connected by this topic.

• The Newspaper Hoax That Put Bat-People on the Moon
• The Element Discovered on the Sun 27 Years Before Anyone Found It on Earth
• The Farm Boy Who Discovered Pluto — and Now Sails Past It Forever
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The Astronomer Who Saw Canals on Mars That Weren't Real
• The Astronomer With a Metal Nose and a Beer-Drinking Elk

Related topics: #19th century history #ancient Greece #ancient technology #Antikythera mechanism #archaeology #Clyde Tombaugh #dwarf planet #giovanni schiaparelli