Astronomy basics

What does the term astronomy define? Astronomy means a science of nature which is related to study on celestial or ethereal objects like:

• stars
• comets and planets
• clusters of stars
• galaxies and nebulae

As well as phenomena which originates outside atmosphere of Earth. Astronomy is implicated with evolution, chemistry, physics, motion and meteorology of celestial-objects and development as well as formation of our Universe.

Astronomy comes in one of the old category of science. Aircraft Astronomy as monuments in Egypt, Stonehenge and the Nubian monuments, as well as former civilizations like the Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Mayans and everyone left far behind by prehistoric cultures.

In the twentieth century, professional astronomy was divided into branches, ie theoretical and observational branches. Observational astronomy is focused mainly on obtaining data that are derived from observations of celestial object. These data are then examined by using basic physical principle author. Theoretical astronomy, on the other hand, a fully oriented in the direction of development of the computer or an analytical model for describing the phenomena astronomical objects. Both astronomy to give support to each other, then there is a theoretical astronomy are trying to determine the results obtained from the use of observation and monitoring to confirm the theoretical results.