Space Awareness by Danijela Takač https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm Navigation through the Ages MOOC en-us 2017-03-05 14:38:47 UTC 2023-02-25 04:37:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Activity danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845082 http://www.space-awareness.org/en/activities/1607/what-is-a-constellation/]]> 2017-03-05 14:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845082 A Quick Spin Around the Big DipperSee how the night sky would appear from a different part of the galaxy.By Summer Ash Illustration by Hannah K. Lee November 20, 2014 danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845138 http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/a-quick-spin-around-the-big-dipper]]> 2017-03-05 14:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845138 VIDEO - navigation by Vikings...stars... danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845871 https://youtu.be/4DlNhbkPiYY]]> 2017-03-05 14:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157845871 1.4 What is archaeoastronomy? danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157846339
There are a lot of people working on astronomy and space sciences. The range of careers this area offers is quite impressive. During the course we will be talking about a few.

At this point, we would like to introduce you to a very special career on this topic: archaeostronomer.

According to Oxford dictionary Archaeostronomy is „the investigation of the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric cultures. Also called astroarchaeology” 

Archaeoastronomy is the study of how people have understood, conceptualized and used the phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures, by analysing their material remains.
]]> 2017-03-05 14:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157846339 Newgrange danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157846717 Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú[1] or Brú na Bóinne)[2] is a prehistoric monument in County Meath, Ireland, located eight kilometers west of Drogheda on the north side of the River Boyne.[3] It was built during the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.[4] The site consists of a large circular mound with an inner stone passageway and chambers. Human bones and possible grave goods or votive offerings were found in these chambers. The mound has a retaining wall at the front, made mostly of white quartz cobblestones, and is ringed by engraved kerbstones. Many of the larger stones of Newgrange are covered in megalithic art. The mound is also ringed by a stone circle. Some of the material that makes up the monument came from as far away as the Mournes and Wicklow Mountains. There is no agreement about what the site was used for, but it is believed that it had religious significance. Its entrance is aligned with the rising sun on the winter solstice, when sunlight shines through a 'roofbox' and floods the inner chamber. Several other passage tombs in Ireland are aligned with solstices and equinoxes, and Cairn G at Carrowkeel has a similar 'roofbox'.[5] Newgrange also shares many similarities with other Neolithic constructions in Western Europe, such as Maeshowe in Orkney, Scotland[6] and Bryn Celli Ddu in Wales. It is the most famous monument within the Neolithic Brú na Bóinne complex, alongside the similar passage tomb mounds of Knowth and Dowth, and as such is a part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site. ]]> 2017-03-05 15:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157846717 Activity -how to travel the Earth and do not get lost danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157847034 http://www.space-awareness.org/en/activities/1609/how-to-travel-on-earth-without-getting-lost/]]> 2017-03-05 15:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/157847034 danijela_takac https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/161391519 http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/geography/diy-measuring-latitude-and-longitude]]> 2017-03-21 07:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danijela_takac/d3havqtffmfm/wish/161391519