Astronomy is the science that studies the universe and Observation of celestial bodies has been around since

d since Branches of Astromy

all of its components. He also studied the phenomena the beginning of mankind, but was originally associated
Due to the breadth of the object of study, Astronomy is
that affect celestial bodies, their movements and with myths.
divided into different branches in the following
expected behaviors.
Already in the III century a. C., Aristarco de Samos began branches:
Among the celestial bodies are planets, stars, satellites, the scientific study of the stars trying to calculate the
Position astronomy: describes the apparent movement
comets, meteorites, interstellar matter, and dark matter. distance between the Moon and the Sun.
of the same in the celestial vault and other phenomena
In ancient times, the Greeks discovered that through the He also proposed the first cosmological model, based such as
shadow that our planet casts on the Moon, the Earth is on the movements of the planets, which indicates that eclipses and
spherical. the Sun is the center of the universe. It was the first transits of
model of the heliocentric universe. the planets
through the
However, a geocentric model of the universe (with the
disk of the
Earth in the center) was proposed in the last century by
Sun.
Eudoxus of Cnidus. Ptolemy made theoretical
corrections in order to adapt this theory to observations
of the movements of the stars

celestial mechanics: Among the achievements

predominates the solution of several drawbacks of
astronomy such as: the complex displacement of the
Moon near the Earth, the disturbances in the
displacement of Uranus caused by the world of Neptune,
the calculation of the
The main objective of any orbit of several comets
scientific investigation is to expand knowledge. and the discrepancies in
However, this knowledge can also have practical the perihelion of
applications. Mercury produced by
the gravitational
dominance of the Sun.
The first astronomical discoveries that allowed us to
calculate the passage of time, the change of seasons,
tides and locations in space since knowing the stars Astrofisic: it is the branch of astronomy that studies the
allowed us to use them as charts. The celestial charts structure, composition and evolution of the stars, it
only tell us the location of the cardinal points. The heliocentric theory remained until the 20th century. begins during the XIX
In the 1920s, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble century, once due to the
showed that the sun is not at the center of the universe spectra it has been
Currently, the technological advances of astronomy in but belongs to a structure called a galaxy. possible to unravel the
the fields of optics and electronics can be applied to chemical structure of
other sciences such as medicine and biology. the Stars.
In addition, it shows that there are galaxies other than
ours, the Vía Láctea.