Diffrences Between

Astronomy and Astrology

Etymology

 Astronomy, comes from the Greek astron “star” and –nomia “law” or “culture”, means “law of the
stars”.
 The word astrology comes from the early Latin word astrologia, which derives from astron “star” and –
logia “study of”.
 Astrologia later passed into meaning 'star-divination' with astronomia used for the scientific term.
Astronomy
 Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial
objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics,
and chemistry in order to explain their origin and evolution.
 Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxies,
and comets.
 Relevant phenomena include supernova explosions, gamma ray
bursts, quasars, blazars, pulsars, and cosmic microwave
background radiation.
 More generally, astronomy studies everything that originates
outside Earth's atmosphere. Cosmology is a branch of astronomy
that studies the universe as a whole.
 The main source of information about celestial bodies and other
objects is visible light, or more generally electromagnetic
radiation.
 Astrology 
 Astrology is a pseudoscience that claims to divine information about
human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and
relative positions of celestial objects.
  Astrology has been dated to at least the 2nd millennium BCE, and
has its roots in calendrical systems used to predict seasonal shifts and
to interpret celestial cycles as signs of divine communications. Many
cultures have attached importance to astronomical events, and some,
such as the Hindus, Chinese, and the Maya, developed elaborate
systems for predicting terrestrial events from celestial observations.
  Western astrology, one of the oldest astrological systems still in use,
can trace its roots to 19th–17th century BCE Mesopotamia, from
where it spread to Ancient Greece, Rome, the Arab world and
eventually Central and Western Europe.
Is Astrology fake?
 Astrology and astronomy were archaically treated together, and
were only gradually separated in Western 17th century
philosophy with the rejection of astrology. During the later part of
the medieval period, astronomy was treated as the foundation upon
which astrology could operate.
 The scientific community rejects astrology as having no explanatory
power for describing the universe, and considers it a pseudoscience.
 Scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence
has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects
outlined in astrological traditions. There is no proposed mechanism
of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets
could affect people and events on Earth that does not contradict
basic and well understood aspects of biology and physics.
Confirmation bias

  Astrology believers tend to selectively remember predictions that turn out to be true, and do not remember
those that turn out false.
 Another, separate, form of confirmation bias also plays a role, where believers often fail to distinguish between
messages that demonstrate special ability and those that do not.
  Thus there are two distinct forms of confirmation bias that are under study with respect to astrological belief.
Thomas Kuhn Thoughts on Astrology

 The philosopher Thomas Kuhn argued that it was not lack of falsifiability that makes astrology unscientific,
but rather that the process and concepts of astrology are non-empirical. Kuhn thought that, though
astrologers had, historically, made predictions that categorically failed, this in itself does not make astrology
unscientific, nor do attempts by astrologers to explain away failures by claiming that creating a horoscope is
very difficult.
 Rather, in Kuhn's eyes, astrology is not science because it was always more akin to medieval medicine;
astrologers followed a sequence of rules and guidelines for a seemingly necessary field with known
shortcomings, but they did no research because the fields are not amenable to research, and so "they had no
puzzles to solve and therefore no science to practise."
Major Astronomical Discoveries
 Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-
years away. (2017)
 The VLT (Very Large Telescope) has detected carbon monoxide molecules
in a galaxy located almost 11 billion light-years away for the first time, a
feat that had remained elusive for 25 years. This has allowed astronomers to
obtain the most precise measurement of the cosmic temperature at such a
remote epoch. (2008)
 Several of ESO's flagship telescopes were used in a close to 30-year-long
study to obtain the most detailed view ever of the surroundings of the
monster lurking at the heart of our galaxy — a supermassive black hole.
The observations made with the VLT have for the first time revealed the
effects predicted by Einstein's general relativity on the motion of a star
passing through the extreme gravitational field near the supermassive black
hole in the centre of the Milky Way. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was
awarded "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre
of our galaxy".
Bibliography

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy