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#PopeFrancis greets officials of the Roman Curia, including Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican astronomical observatory. The pope seemed to recognize that his job involves looking up at the stars.
The 19th-century refractor owned by Msgr. Michael Bouchet of Louisville, Kentucky is now fully functional, and has been showing people both the sky and history.
https://t.co/EAsiDZeNu5
Join us for our next Full Moon Meetup with our guest Dr. Daniel Britt -Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Central Florida.
https://t.co/OrH39LrMfe
A new entry for the Vatican Observatory Faith & Science Resource Center: A discussion of Jesuits and the Effect that drives hurricanes.
https://t.co/j26h6Y8rtt
Fr. Juan Casanovas SJ, Jesuit solar astronomer who served as an astronomer and librarian for the Vatican Observatory, has had an asteroid named after him
https://t.co/sUV1rWCimf
Astrology books for the young are enjoying surge in popularity -- at least on the shelves of my public library. They invoke science, but make no sense at all.
https://t.co/HmaphFCdou
A new entry for the Vatican Observatory Faith & Science Resource Center, for younger readers but older ones as well. The title says it all.
https://t.co/HdsQ9GwfIp
Frank Borman, Commander of NASA's Apollo 8 mission has died. He visited the Vatican Observatory less than 2 months after his flight to the Moon in 1968
https://t.co/E7MirWmsBk
Sometimes battle of science versus religion do not turn out the way we think of those battles turning out -- and we can be glad for that.
https://t.co/YctgndU8m8
Owen Gingerich, astronomer and historian of science at Harvard, looks at a modern understanding of the universe versus that of Luther or the Psalmist.
https://t.co/X4USjRkElY