You should, however, know that weather on heavenly bodies other than the Earth can impact us, in a very large way.

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His uncle had a telescope and showed Schmidt heavenly bodies close up.

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But microwaves can carry astronomical details about the chemical composition of heavenly bodies, such as the molecular clouds in which stars are born, that other radio frequencies are blind to so the search is worthwhile.

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Vienna, Austria-based Markus Rose, editor of Rosecast is a financial astrologer who takes his cues from the geometry of heavenly bodies and uses a modified version of the 1947 Bradley model to call market turning points.

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The Mayan calendar is based on the position of the heavenly bodies -- the sun, the moon and the stars -- and was meant to tell the Mayan people about agricultural and economic trends, said archeologist Alfredo Barrera.

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These revolutions can be triggered by technological breakthroughs, such as the construction of the first telescope (which overthrew the Aristotelian idea that heavenly bodies are perfect and unchanging) and by conceptual breakthroughs such as the invention of calculus (which allowed the laws of motion to be formulated).

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The exhibition of jewelry and other objects that were either inspired by the skies above, made the trip to outer space, created out of materials that originated from heavenly bodies, or built from materials that were created during the space race is now open to the public and will run till September 7 at Forbes Galleries, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York.

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