Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) — The astronomy in Korea has a long history. It is proved by old records on many particular astronomical phenomena in the periods of Koguryo (277 B.C. - 668 A.D.), Koryo, the first unified state in Korea and Ri Dynasty.

Celebrate Astronomy Day from 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences George Observatory in Brazos Bend State Park.

Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center will hold a special astronomy night Saturday. The event will begin at 7 p.m. with a tour of the constellations and bright stars in the Omnisphere Planetarium.

A giant celebration of astronomy, including a movie, pizza party, observing the night sky, prize drawings and a behind-the-scenes look at an observatory is set to begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank. The fi…

The Cumberland Astronomy Club concludes its 2009 series of public telescope observing sessions with two events this weekend in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969.

Ranau: In conjunction with Sabah’s “International Year of Astronomy 2009″, an exhibition of astronomical images taken from Malaysia, will be held at the Kg Lingkudau Ranau Village Hall starting from Oct 22 to Nov 9.

In some ways, discovering a new galaxy is all in a day’s work for John Cannon, Macalester College assistant astronomy professor.

Edwin Hubble is a heroic name within the field of astronomy. Hubbles research provided the foundation of extragalactic astronomy as we know it today, Bradley Peterson, department chair for astronomy at Ohio State, said.