American Museum of Natural History: Charles Hayden and How NYC Got Its Planetarium
January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 -- The American Museum of Natural History issued the following news:
Charles Hayden was born in 1870, the same year a total solar eclipse brought a team of scientists together to observe the totality over Sicily with the relatively new technology of spectroscopy, which split light into wavelengths that could be analyzed for various properties. The expedition was a milestone in the nascent field of "physical astronomy"--or astrophysics, as we know it. And . . .
Charles Hayden was born in 1870, the same year a total solar eclipse brought a team of scientists together to observe the totality over Sicily with the relatively new technology of spectroscopy, which split light into wavelengths that could be analyzed for various properties. The expedition was a milestone in the nascent field of "physical astronomy"--or astrophysics, as we know it. And . . .