• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Super cool photo, but does this technically count as astronomy? Isn’t astronomy “a camera on (usually) on earth, pointed up into space”, not the other way around?

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
      1·
      20 days ago
      astronomy
      /ə-strŏn′ə-mē/
      noun
      1. (obsolete) Astrology.
      2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
      3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

      From the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.