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How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/

Heute anlässlich des #TagDesOffenenDenkmals 2024 in #Regensburg im #documentKepler - dem Sterbehaus von #JohannesKepler, seinerzeit im Besitz eines befreundeten Kaufmanns - vorbei geschaut:

How Kepler’s 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/how-keplers-400-year-old-sunspot-sketches-helped-solve-a-modern-mystery/ #Space #Astronomy #History #Sun #Sunspots #Astrophysics #Kepler #JohannesKepler

How Kepler’s 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery - Enlarge / A naked-eye sunspot group on May 11, 2024. There are typicall... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2039961 #johanneskepler #astrophysics #solarphysics #astronomy #sunspots #science #physics

"So Matt, you like Space?"
Sure!
"Pop culture? Science fiction?"
Oh yes!
"Cold War history?"
[Pinches self]
"Cosmic horror?
[Muffled sounds of excitement]

Me in The Independent today: Listen to 100s of years of science fiction... do NOT go into that Moon tunnel.

Features #JulesVerne #drwho #alien #coldwarhistory #JohannesKepler #cosmichorror #space #mooncaves #nasa #hgwells #lunarcave #moons

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/moon-tunnel-caves-lunar-space-discovery-science-b2580527.html

I thought y'all might like this. "How Kepler Invented Science Fiction and Defended His Mother in a Witchcraft Trial While Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Universe" #Kepler #JohannesKepler #sciencefiction #witchtrials #science #Astronomy #Physics https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/12/26/katharina-kepler-witchcraft-dream/

#JohannesKepler was a genius! His innovative thinking and boundless curiosity changed the way we understand the #Universe. We can all learn from his incredible intelligence and dedication to #Science.

#SpaceMastodon #Spacedon #Space #Astronomy #Astrodon #ScienceMastodon #Sciencedon #Science #Kepler #NotableHumans #NotableEarthHumans #BornonThisDay #Today

#OnThisDay 1571-12-27 #JohannesKepler has been born

#JohannesKepler was a brilliant #astronomer who studied the motion of #planets. Like everyone, he also had some strange ideas about the heavens, no doubt as a person in the middle ages would about the harmony of worlds and their purported relation to things like the #PlatonicSolids, which was of course bogus. He is probably best known for his famous three laws of #PlanetaryMotion which he reluctantly formulated when he had to abandon the idea that planets only orbit the #Sun in perfect #circles.

Kepler achieves a world first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic - Small satellite startup Kepler has done something never before accomplished with satellite-based bro... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wfQ2Njqe3UM/ #keplercommunications #johanneskepler #exoplanets #aerospace #astronomy #broadband #startups #google #kepler #stadia #space #tc