Astronomy's greatest secret
The Beginnings of Astronomy
When television was young, there was a very popular show based on the still popular fictional character Superman. The opening of this show had a familiar phrase that said, “Look. Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman!”
How popular Superman has become in our culture and the worldwide fascination for aliens and everything cosmic only underlines that there is a deep curiosity for nature and astronomy in every person, even if many people would not know how to call it astronomy.
Oldest sciences ever when archaeologists unearth ancient civilizations, even of cavemen, they inevitably find art that shows man's insatiable fascination with the stars.
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Astronomy has caught the interest of humans
Many have tried to explain mankind's apparent obsession with space as the result of an ancient memory or as part of mankind's eternal nature. Whatever the cause, people of all ages and nations share this deep interest in learning more about the universe, of which our tiny planet is only a part. It's pretty strange because the actual behavior of a serious astronomy student isn't exactly an adventure. You will never see a movie made "Raiders of the Lost Arc" or "Jurassic Park".
The thrill of those who love this science is staying up all night observing the cosmos through a powerful telescope, but this fact seems the tens of thousands of people study astronomy every year and the enormous global interest in stars. , the planets and the universe. There may be no other universal human fascination that contributes so much to national borders and even international hostilities fizzle out. The operation to make great advances for mankind in space appears to be moving forward uninterruptedly, even when the nations collaborating on these projects are practically at war on the surface of the earth.
Together as brothers on space missions, even when their home countries are busily pointing missiles at each other at home. It almost makes one think that we should put more energy and money into the space program, not least because it appears to be a connection that is more healing than tension. Why is astronomy so exciting when we don't have dinosaurs, moving animals, or any real danger to most obsessed with the discipline?
It can be traced back to a fundamental curiosity of all people about their natural habitat and this mysterious big thing. Out there called space. Perhaps it goes back to the old saying at the beginning of Star Trek that space is "The Final Frontier". But we all share this constant excitement every time we pull out our telescopes and look straight into the cosmos the twinkling stars are really the light of those stars that began their journey to us thousands of years ago, the last frontier and our curiosity satisfied.
Conclusion
There will always be more to learn and more to discover in the world of astronomy, and mankind's curiosity about astronomy is also bound to be limitless.