• 365 Days of Astronomy is an educational podcast, inspired by the International Year of Astronomy, published daily beginning in 2009. It is produced as...
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    (December 4, 2010). "365 Days of Astronomy to Continue in 2010!". 365 Days of Astronomy. Retrieved May 28, 2010. "365 Days of Astronomy Twitter". Retrieved...
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    Renée Hložek (category Academic staff of the University of Toronto)
    time at Oxford, she appeared on Chris Lintott's Pub Astronomy podcast and 365 Days of Astronomy. After her PhD Hložek joined Princeton University as...
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  • In astronomy, a Julian year (symbol: a or aj) is a unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each. The length of the...
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    Haumea (redirect from Haumea (astronomy))
    Archived from the original on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2009-02-14. "365 Days of Astronomy". 31 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved...
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    PMID 16078867. Impey, Chris (31 January 2011). "Jan 31st: Life on Titan". 365 Days of Astronomy. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 23 June...
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  • Tropical year (category Time in astronomy)
    reckoned the length of the year to be 1/300 of a day less than 365.25 days (365 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes, 12 seconds, or 365.24667 days). Hipparchus used...
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  • made up of twelve months of approximately 30 days each to make a year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days. The civil year had 365.25 days. This is...
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    Light-year (category Units of measurement in astronomy)
    the light-year is the product of the Julian year (365.25 days, as opposed to the 365.2425-day Gregorian year or the 365.24219-day Tropical year that both...
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  • Gregorian calendar (redirect from 365.2425)
    are regular years of 365 days and 97 are leap years of 366 days. A mean calendar year is ⁠365+97/400⁠ days = 365.2425 days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes...
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    of astronomy focuses on the contributions civilizations have made to further their understanding of the universe beyond earth's atmosphere. Astronomy...
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    Palomar Observatory (category Astronomy institutes and departments)
    "Super Camera of the Skies". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. p. 52. "60th Anniversary of Hale Telescope," 365 Days of Astronomy (podcast). January...
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    George Hrab (category American people of Ukrainian descent)
    365 Days of Astronomy. November 6, 2008. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved April 12, 2010. "This stuff is far!". 365 Days of Astronomy...
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    Erika Hamden (category University of Arizona faculty)
    ultraviolet. She appeared on the podcast 365 Days of Astronomy. She was a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics postdoctoral fellow in...
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  • Sidereal year (category Types of year)
    tropical year at J2000.0 (365.242 190 402 ephemeris days). At present, the rate of axial precession corresponds to a period of 25,772 years, so sidereal...
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  • In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity. It is useful for...
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  • Callippic cycle (category Ancient Greek astronomy)
    duration of 6940⁄19 = 365 + 5⁄19 = 365 + 1⁄4 + 1⁄76 days = 365 d 6 h 18 min 56 s. Callippus accepted the 19-year cycle, but held that the duration of the year...
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    Year (category Types of year)
    month of February. The name "Leap Day" is applied to the added day. In astronomy, the Julian year is a unit of time defined as 365.25 days, each of exactly...
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  • Retrieved March 10, 2017. "365 Days of Astronomy Podcast Wins Prestigious Parsec Award". International Year of Astronomy. International Astronomical...
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  • The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar...
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    Sarah Tuttle (category University of Washington faculty)
    appearances on the podcast 365 Days of Astronomy in 2009 and writing for The Toast in 2014. She regularly appears as an astronomy expert in articles in The...
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  • comparison the length of the year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, while at the end of the 20th century it was 365.242190 days. The Gregorian...
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  • the annual flooding of the Nile River. They constructed a calendar of 365 days, consisting of 12 months of 30 days each, with 5 days added at the year’s...
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    astronomy started in prehistoric times, in the Predynastic Period. In the 5th millennium BCE, the stone circles at Nabta Playa may have made use of astronomical...
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    In astronomy, axial precession is a gravity-induced, slow, and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical body's rotational axis. In the...
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    Ancient Greek astronomy is the astronomy written in the Greek language during classical antiquity. Greek astronomy is understood to include the Ancient...
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    297 years spanning 108,478 days; this implies a tropical year of 365.24579... days = 365 days;14,44,51 (sexagesimal; = 365 days + ⁠14/60⁠ + ⁠44/602⁠ + ⁠51/603⁠)...
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    Aryabhata (section Astronomy)
    (476–550 CE) was the first of the major mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the...
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  • Synodic day (redirect from Solar days)
    spherical background of seemingly fixed stars. Each synodic day, this gradual motion is a little less than 1° eastward (360° per 365.25 days), in a manner known...
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    "Saturday Morning News — Astronomy Picture of Day transcript". CNN. September 21, 2002. Retrieved April 3, 2007. The Universe: 365 Days: Robert J. Nemiroff...
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