#Aristarchus's #heliocentric model, proposed 18 centuries before #Copernicus, is a powerful reminder of how suppressed ideas resurface in the #history of science.

🌍 https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/09/aristarchus-of-samos-the-greek-sage-who-discovered-that-the-planets-revolved-around-the-sun/

The idea that the earth goes around the sun has an ancient precedent: the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos.

A look at what he thought, why he thought it, and what other people thought of it.

#classics #astronomy #aristarchus
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2024/03/aristarchus.html

ShadowCam maakt spectaculaire beelden van de zuidpool van de Maan

NASA’s ShadowCam vliegt met vijf andere instrumenten aan boord van KARI’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), ook bekend als Danuri, die op 4 augustus 2022 werd gelanceerd.

https://www.kuuke.nl/shadowcam-maakt-spectaculaire-beelden-van-de-zuidpool-van-de-maan/

#Aristarchus #Danuri #korea #maan #ShadowCam

Here you can see #Aristarchus and the #Schrötertal al little bit closer

#Mondspaziergang #mond #moon

At the right there is #Kepler and big #Copernicus. On the left side, near the terminator, lays bright, shiny #Aristarchus. Today you can see Schröter valley near #Aristarchus much better than yesterday.

#Mondspaziergang #mond #moon

#Moon at dusk in the deep blue sky:

#Keppler in the center, #Aristarchus in the upper left (the brightest part of the moon) and the Schröter valley behind.

#monflausch #mond #mondspaziergang