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{{Short description|Chinese mathematician (580–640)}} ...aotong''' (王孝通) (AD 580–640), also known as Wang Hs'iao-t'ung, was a Chinese mathematician, calendarist, politician, and writer of the early Tang dynast ...

...pair, and was unable to track for several months. An international team of astronomers was nevertheless able to record the data from the antenna, letting the Eart ...s ratio ~ 1:11.7) and short orbital period (2 hours and 27 minutes) allows astronomers to [[tests of general relativity|test]] [[general relativity]] in a regime ...

...nd-its-source/ |archivedate=4 August 2023 |accessdate=5 August 2023 |quote=Astronomers are now seeking to pinpoint the origins of an exciting new form of gravitat # The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) uses the [[Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

...12.1408|last1=Fields|first1=Brian D|title=Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis|journal=Chinese Physics C|volume=38|issue=9|pages=339–344|last2=Molaro|first2=Paolo|last3=S ...e WHIM is mostly composed of ionized hydrogen. This creates difficulty for astronomers trying to detect baryons in the WHIM. It is easier to detect the WHIM throu ...

...nd the immediate [[Solar System]]. They also discovered many concepts in [[Chinese mathematics|mathematics]]. The list below contains discoveries which found ...ts representing 11 pm to 1 am (left) and 5 am to 7 am (right); the ancient Chinese, although discussing it in supernatural terms, acknowledged [[circadian rhy ...

...its completed by Neptune. Gonggong was discovered in July 2007 by American astronomers [[Megan Schwamb]], [[Michael E. Brown|Michael Brown]], and [[David Rabinowi ...space. The object is named after ''[[Gonggong (mythology)|Gònggōng]]'', a Chinese water god responsible for chaos, floods and the tilt of the Earth. The name ...

...t=Ossendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=Jan 29, 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...convergence/on-squares-rectangles-and-square-roots-square-roots-in-ancient-chinese-mathematics |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=www.maa.org}}</ref> ...

Astronomers and great thinkers of the past were able to record observations and attempt === Chinese theories === ...

Since antiquity, astronomers have progressively refined the definition of the tropical year. The entry f ...e word "tropical" was lent to the period of the seasonal cycle . The early Chinese, Hindus, Greeks, and others made approximate measures of the tropical year. ...

.../ref> caused by some high-energy astrophysical process not yet understood. Astronomers estimate the average FRB releases as much energy in a millisecond as the Su ...s-spotted-in-our-galaxy-could-solve-a-space-mystery/}}</ref> In June 2021, astronomers reported over 500 FRBs from outer space detected in one year.<ref name="STD ...

...on [[Chinese history|Chinese]] and [[Mongolian history]], opened the first Chinese-language school in Russia ...r Kafarov]]''', prominent [[sinologist]], developed the [[cyrillization of Chinese]], discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including ''[[The ...

...American [[GPS]], European [[Galileo (satellite navigation)|Galileo]] and Chinese [[BeiDou]], and Russia's being the only country constructing [[Russian floa {{main|List of Russian astronomers}} ...

...ssembled earlier than previously thought. |url=https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-may-have-just-spotted-the-universes-first-galaxies/ |date=10 January 2023 | ...a' Galaxies | url=https://news.yale.edu/2009/07/27/galaxy-zoo-hunters-help-astronomers-discover-rare-green-pea-galaxies | work=[[Yale University|Yale News]] | acc ...

...836}}</ref> One of the most significant discoveries from early solar radio astronomers such as [[Joseph Lade Pawsey|Joseph Pawsey]] was that the Sun produces much ...Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS) |chapter=Solar physics with Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph |date=August 2014|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.i ...

...ssendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=29 January 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo [[File:Chinese pythagoras.jpg|thumb|right|Visual checking of the [[Pythagorean theorem]] f ...

...to humanity was the Earth's rotation. It was natural, therefore, that the astronomers under the auspices of the [[International Astronomical Union]] (IAU) took t ...ings of eclipses of the Sun with those observed in antiquity going back to Chinese records of 763&nbsp;BC.<ref> ...

...languages today use some variant of the name "Neptune" for the planet. In Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean, the planet's name was translated as "sea ...=206–208}}</ref> and the discovery of the [[Kuiper belt]] in 1992 led many astronomers to debate whether Pluto should be considered a planet or as part of the Kui ...

...ian influence on Islamic science|Christian influences on the Islamic world|Chinese influences on Islamic pottery}} ...Gingerich1986 /> This development by Ibn al-Shatir, as well as the Maragha astronomers remained relatively unknown in medieval Europe.<ref name=Gingerich1986 /> ...

...Josep | title=Banū Mūsā | encyclopedia = The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers | publisher = Springer | year = 2007 | location = New York | pages = 92–4 | ...world's total output had reached 1.3%, comparing with US share of 20% and Chinese share of 18%. Similarly Iran's engineering output had grown to 1.6% of the ...

...] as [[elliptical galaxy|elliptical]],<ref>Hoover, A. (June 16, 2003). "UF Astronomers: Universe Slightly Simpler Than Expected". Hubble News Desk. Archived from ...-08-01|title=Cleaning space debris with a space-based laser system|journal=Chinese Journal of Aeronautics|language=en|volume=27|issue=4|pages=805–811|doi=10.1 ...