This crater was unofficially designated Ancient Thebit by Chuck ... The unnamed volcanic pit at the source of the lava flows that channeled through Schröter's Valley on the Aristarchus Plateau is no ...

To the west of Copernicus is a smaller, brighter pockmark — that’s Aristarchus, north of the smaller rayed crater Kepler. Fully visible is Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. The largest ...

To the west of Copernicus is a smaller, brighter pockmark - that's Aristarchus, north of the smaller rayed crater Kepler. Fully visible is Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. The largest of ...

It was named after German-Belgian astronomer Wilhelm Prinz. The formation lies to the southwest of the prominent crater Aristarchus. To the north-northeast is the flooded crater Krieger.

Kids watching "Bluey," "SpongeBob Squarepants" and "Paw Patrol" (Chris Smith/TheWrap) For decades, the act of watching kids TV was by appointment only. The networks dictated what was shown and ...

The moon is by far the most luminous object in the night sky. Reaching a maximum brightness of -12.92 magnitude, it's hard to miss as it boldly takes center stage and washes out any celestial ...

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

Aristarchus also reasoned that as the angular size of the Sun and the Moon were the same, but the distance to the Sun was between 18 and 20 times further than the Moon, the Sun must therefore be 18–20 ...

For this reason, he certainly made use of the observations and perhaps the mathematical techniques accumulated over centuries by the Babylonians and by Meton of Athens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, ...

Aristarchus of Samothrace, who lived from c. 216 to c. 145 BC, was the sixth head librarian. Earning a reputation as the greatest of all ancient scholars, he produced not only texts of classic poems ...