为纪念伽利略首使用望远镜进行天文观测400周年,在国际.docVIP

为纪念伽利略首次使用望远镜进行天文观测400周年,在国际天文学联合会和联合国教科文组织的共同倡议下,联合国大会将2009年正式确定为国际天文年,并将其主题定为“探索我们的宇宙”。即使你一点都不喜欢让人费解的天文学,也会偶尔仰望星空吧,毕竟那里有太多的神秘、太多的遐想。本次专题分上下两辑,为大家带来13个天文史上最伟大的发现。噢,别太担心,主持人很擅长以简单的语句解释深奥的天文理论,保证所有小盆友都能看得明白哦!快来参加这次发现之旅吧!By the way,记得关注下期发现哦! 　　 　　For most of human history, the only light we knew came from the sky, by day the sun, by night an uncountable 　　number of stars. From the beginning, our ancestors 　　believed that the sun and the stars were heavenly[神圣的], 　　out of this world. And they were right. We’ve been watching the sky for thousands of years, but until 　　recently, we couldn’t see well enough to understand our connection to the cosmos. But now our astronomical 　　vision has sharpened. We can see farther and clearer. We can observe objects that are invisible to human eyes. Our increasingly improving vision has allowed us to make great discoveries, revealing an astonishing 　　and wonderful universe. What follows are 13 of the greatest discoveries in astronomy. 　　 　　The Planets Move 　　Discoverer: Greeks 　　Our first great discovery happened over centuries as the first humans looked carefully at the sky in places like this, the empty cloudless deserts of the American southwest, the Middle East, Africa and South America. Of these ancient astronomers the most important were the 　　Mesopotamians注1. They considered the objects in the sky gods, and built giant towers so they could record the rising and setting of the sun, the moon and the stars. For more than 1,000 years, they used clay tablets[小平板] to 　　record what they saw. 　　After the Mesopotamians made the first records, it was the Greeks who took the next step. 　　Owen Gingerich (Astronomy professor): Some of the Greek astronomers made a field trip[实际考察旅行] out to Mesopotamia to find out what had been going on there. And they seem to have brought back some systematic records, so that ultimately, it gave the basis for making a mathematical theory of the motion of the planets. 　　From their observation