Textbooks often show Earth’s orbit around the Sun as an almost egg-shaped ellipse. The real story is very different.
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Eclipses have long fascinated and intrigued people, and anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8 is no exception. The beauty, history, mythology and science of eclipses justify the hype.
From the birth of Jesus Christ to Newton’s discovery of gravity, great conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn have many notable connections in human history.
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Observatory Manager and Instructor, Astronomy, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor, Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics & UQ College, The University of Queensland
