American Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2013

  • Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel

    Valerie Shrimplin

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2013
    Pages: 1-7
    Received: 7 April 2013
    Published: 2 May 2013
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    Abstract: It is argued that Copernican astronomy is a key theme in Michelangelo’s fresco of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, and was incorporated with the knowledge, consent and approval of the Popes concerned. In Christian art, the iconography of the Last Judgment (depicting the three parts of the universe: heaven earth and hell) was traditionally b... Show More
  • AGB Stars Migration fom the Central of the Milky Way Galaxy to Our Sun’s Birthplace and Its Relation with Silicon Carbide Grains

    Ahmad Hashem Abdelhadi

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2013
    Pages: 8-14
    Received: 4 March 2013
    Published: 10 June 2013
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    Abstract: Silicon carbide grains found in meteorites are peculiar in their age and isotopic ratios; they formed before the Sun was born, and their isotopic signature indicates that they come from a different galactic region. This work aims to seek a possible paradigm for such richness and peculiarity through Monte Carlo simulation of scattering of Asymptotic... Show More