#astronomy

Stories tagged “astronomy” in the Weird Science History archive — 9 stories connected by this topic.

• The Planet That Was Officially Named 'George' for 67 Years
• The September That Jumped From the 2nd to the 14th
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The Astronomer Who Spent Eleven Years at Sea to Watch Venus Cross the Sun — and Missed It Anyway
• The Astronomer Who Saw Canals on Mars That Weren't Real
• The Astronomer With a Metal Nose and a Beer-Drinking Elk
• 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 Newspaper Hoax That Put Bat-People on the Moon

Related topics: #18th century #ancient technology #archaeology #history of science #hoaxes #media literacy #Moon #Royal Society