Tycho Brahe: A wonderful life!

Tycho Brahe was a person to whom we should be highly grateful. He was the first astronomer to locate many of the nearby stars with utmost precision, in the 16th century, without the help of a telescope!  At the age of 14, Tycho witnessed a solar eclipse. He was fascinated,…

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The life of Charles Messier and 6 amazing Messier objects

  Charles Messier, a French astronomer famous for compiling the Messier Catalogue, was born in the year 1730, on the 26th of June in a wealthy French family along with 11 siblings. The Great Comet of 1744, which is catalogued as C/1743 X1, was the impetus for Messier to pursue a…

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