The Engraved Hourglass Nebula (also known as MyCn 18) is a young planetary nebula situated in the southern constellation Musca about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper Catalogue. At the time [January 18, 1996] it was designated simply as a small faint planetary nebula. Much improved telescopes and imaging techniques [...]
A compass, magnetic compass or mariner’s compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the earth’s magnetic poles. It consists of a magnetized pointer (usually marked on the North end) free to align itself with Earth’s magnetic field. The face of the compass generally highlights the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. The compass greatly improved the safety and efficiency [...]
30:1 · The circle divided by a horizontal line is a structure often found on rock carvings. In early Chinese calligraphy it represented the sun(the earliest sun sign was , though). In the Greek alphabet the structure is used to signify the letter theta. The sign is used in at least ten different ideographic systems of natural science, and in the [...]
30:3 · The circle divided by a vertical line is an ancient sign of the alphabets used in antiquity in the Near East. The alchemists used it to signify nitrogen, or saltpeter. Among the Hittites and were closely associated with the idea of lightning.
In his nineteenth-century system for the chemical elements John Dalton used for nitrogen.
Some meteorological sign systems used for solar halo.
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Fu Lu Shou (traditional Chinese: 福祿壽; simplified Chinese: 福禄寿; pinyin: Fú Lù Shòu) refers to the concept of Good Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou). This Taoist concept is thought to date back to the Ming Dynasty, when the Fu Star, Lu Star and Shou Star were considered deities of these attributes respectively. The term is commonly used in Chinese culture to [...]
20:7 · This ideogram is very old. It was a symbol for the moon god Nannan, later Sin, in the Euphrates-Tigris region. The sign has most likely been in use from around 2500 B.C. During the Babylonian times it appeared with and for the Venus god and the Sun god, respectively. See these signs in Group 26 and Group 25.
The structurally almost identical and appear today in astronomy and almanacs signifying [...]
Shamash was the common Akkadian name of the sun god and god of justice in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu.
The name simply means “sun”. Both in early and in late inscriptions Sha-mash is designated as the “offspring of Nannar”; i.e. of the moon-god, and since, in an enumeration of the pantheon, Sin generally takes precedence of Shamash, it is in relationship, presumably, to the moon-god that [...]
Mandala (Sanskrit maṇḍala ”essence” + “having” or “containing”, also translates as “circle-circumference” or “completion”, both derived from the Tibetan term dkyil khor) is a concentric diagram having spiritual andritual significance in both Buddhism and Hinduism.[1][2] The term is of Hindu origin and appears in the Rig Veda,being the name of sections of the work, but is also used in other Indian religions, particularly Buddhism. In the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism, mandalas have been developed into sandpainting. They [...]
A gender symbol is a symbol used to denote the sex of a life form or the gender of a human being.The two original gender symbols are derived from astronomical symbols. They were first used to denote the gender of plants by Carl Linnaeus in 1751
From the symbol of Mars (U+2642 ♂). The symbol for a male organism or man.
From the symbol of Venus (U+2640 ♀). The symbol for a female organism or woman.
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The Aztec calendar is the calendar system that was used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout ancient Mesoamerica.
The calendar consisted of a 365 day calendar cycle called xiuhpohualli (year count) and a 260 day ritual cycle called tonalpohualli (day count). These two cycles together formed a 52 year “century,” sometimes called the “Calendar [...]
