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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 5 June 2009
Country: Austria
Denominations: 0.65 EUR
On the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy, the Europa 2009 commemorative also looks at this topic -- or to be more precise the launch of the first Austrian nanosatellite TUGSAT-1, developed for the BRITE Austria (Bright Target Explorer) mission.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 1 June 2009
Country: Gibraltor
Denominations: £2.46 x 4
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EUROPA 2009 - Astronomy
Date of Issue: 28 May 2009
Country: Slovakia
Denominations:0,90 €
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 25 May 2009
Country: Faroe Islands
Denominations: DKK 22,00
In 1609, the Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo Galilei, learned that Hans Lippershey in Holland had performed experiments with a telescope. Galileo immediately began his own experiments with lenses. After a short time, he had built his own telescope. He understood that the telescope could be a useful instrument for exploring space. One November evening in 1609, he saw both deep craters and flat plains on the Moon. On the nights following, he looked at different constellations and discovered that he could see many more stars using his telescope than with the naked eye. He also discovered that the Milky Way was nothing less than a collection of an inconceivable number of stars.
On 7 January 1610, he observed Jupiter through his telescope. He saw three small ‘stars’ close to Jupiter, two on the western side of the planet and one on the eastern side of the planet. At first, he believed them to be fixed stars and he followed these stars on subsequent nights. On 13 January, he wrote in his journal that he could now see a fourth star near Jupiter. On the 14th, the sky was overcast, but on the 15th the skies were clear again and all four stars were now west of the planet. The mystery was now solved: The ‘stars’ were actually moons in orbit around Jupiter. These four moons are now jointly called the Galilean moons. This reinforced Galileo’s Copernican conviction that the Sun was the centre of the solar system. If moons can orbit Jupiter, the Earth and the other planets could also orbit the Sun. Galileo also observed Saturn, but could not distinguish its rings. His telescope was not advanced enough. He drew Saturn as three celestial bodies in a line.
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International Year of Astronomy
Date of Issue: 2 May 2009
Country: Indonesia
Denominations: Rp5000 (3 designs), Souvenir Sheet Rp5000 x3
The stamps contain the image of "Galileo's telescope", "International Year of Astronomy 2009 logo" and "the portrait of Galileo Galilei".
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International year of astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 20 May 2009
Country: Vatican
Denominations:0.60, 0.65 €
The United Nations declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical observation through a telescope by Galileo Galilei in 1609. The global celebration will highlight the multi-disciplinary contributions of astronomy in the journey of humanity and focus on the relationship between science and faith today. One of the goals of the International Year of Astronomy is to help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day- and night-time sky, and thereby engage a personal sense of wonder and discovery. The International Year also offers a unique opportunity to highlight the extraordinary discoveries in astronomy over the last 400 years, and especially in recent years, while also promoting the essential role astronomy plays in science education. The Philatelic and Numismatic Office has produced two stamps showing two oil paintings by Donato Creti - Saturn and The Sun. The 18th century works from the Pinacoteca of the Vatican Museums are an eight-part series of small format paintings (50 x 35 cm) called “Astronomical Observations”.
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Europa 2009 - International Year of Astronomy
Date of Issue: 15 May 2009
Country: Ireland
Denominations: 55c, 82c
The stamps are issued under the aegis of PostEurop, the Association of European public postal operators. An Post's two stamps for this issue spotlight areas of astronomy that hold special interest for Ireland.
The 55c stamp bears a picture of the Crab Nebula. First observed by the English astronomer, John Bevis, in 1731, this nebula was named by William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse, based on observations made from Birr Castle, Co Offaly. The brightest and most recent supernova close to the Earth, this may very well be the most studied object in the sky. It is associated with a number of important scientific discoveries in Ireland.
The 82c stamp shows an artist's impression of jets from a Brown Dwarf. These are astronomical objects whose mass is smaller than that of a star but larger than that of the largest planets. There is a great deal of research being carried out on Brown Dwarfs at the moment, with Irish astronomers very much at the forefront.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 9 May 2009
Country: Kosovo
Denominations:€2, €1
The astronomy, which according to etymology means star arranging, is a science that observes and explains phenomena that occur outside the Earth and its atmosphere.
It studies the origin, development, physical and chemical features of all celestial bodies that could be observed in the sky (outside Earth), together with all processes involved in. Exactly 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) has for the first time through his telescope observed the Moon (30/11/1609), discovering another world of mountains, fields and craters on its surface. In memory of this event and to stress the importance of astronomy as a basic science, UNESCO and International Astronomical Union have at the meeting, attended by 192 countries, decided that the year 2009 be marked as an international year of astronomy.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 7 May 2009
Country: Italy
Denominations:€ 0,65, € 0,60
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 7 May 2009
Country: Iceland
Denominations:105, 140 ISK
The United Nations 62nd General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year Astronomy, celebrating the first astronomical use of the telescope by Galileo Gelilei – a momentous event which initiated 400 years of astronomical discoveries. In that same year of 1609 Johannes Kepler introduced his frist two laws of planetary motion. The work of Galileo and Keplers triggered a scientific revolution which profoundly changed humanity’s conception of the universe. The International Year of Astronomy is The IYA is primarily an activity for the citizens of planet Earth. It aims to convey the excitement of personal discovery, the pleasure of sharing fundamental knowledge about the Universe and our place in it. Although Icelanders have always been interested in the stars, astronomy and astrophysics did not become an independent subject at The University of Iceland until in 1976.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 7 May 2009
Country: Germany
Denominations: 0,55 Euro
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 4 May 2009
Country: France
Denominations: 0.7 € x 2
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 5 May 2009
Country: Estonia
Denominations: 18.00
The history of astronomy embraces the cultural history of humanity, going back to antiquity and having started from prehistoric cults. If originally astronomy represented knowledge about the starry sky and its cycles and in early astronomy the movement of visible heavenly bodies was observed and forecast, then in the modern sense astronomy is a science that studies above all the physical nature of cosmic objects and the Universe as a whole. Significant achievements of Estonian astronomers include the discovery of the cell structure of the universe based on the location of galaxies and their systems in space. The theory was presented by Jaan Einasto and his colleagues at an international symposium on astronomy in Tallinn in 1977. A different structure of the universe than had been presumed until that time was established, whereas the diameter of a cell is nearly 200 million light years. The dimensions of a cell are immense and even light doesn't have enough time to exchange information between different edges of the cell network during the lifetime of the Universe. The regular structure of the cell could be compared with a honeycomb, where the cells are also placed in a regular pattern.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 6 May 2009
Country: Czech Republic
Denominations: 17.0 Kč
The Association of European Public Postal Operators PostEurop declared "Astronomy" as this year's common theme for the postage stamp issue EUROPA. At the initiative of professional astronomers associated in the International Astronomical Union the year 2009 was proclaimed by the UNESCO as the International Year of Astronomy under the auspices of the UN. This event is closely related to the 400th anniversary of use of astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. At an international conference the Czech Republic will commemorate also the 400th anniversary of publication of a Kepler's major work Astronomia Nova.
The astronomer, mathematician, physicist and astrologer, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), was a man of significance not only for the Czech environment. In 1600 he came to Prague already as a convinced follower of Koperník's system. At the emperor Rudolf II's court he became a colleague of Tycho Brahe and after the latter's death (1601) he took the position of the emperor's mathematician and astronomer. Kepler who was convinced of a harmonious structure of the world believed that the grouping of planets into specific geometrical figures has an extraordinary impact on the world events. On basis of data obtained by Brahe he calculated the elliptic orbit of the planet Mars and formulated the first two of his famous laws which regulate the motion of planets. The results were published in 1609 in his work Astronomia Nova. In 1612 Kepler left Prague for Linz where in 1618 he formulated his third law on planetary circulation. J. Kepler belongs to the major astronomers of the 17th century. He dealt with geometry, observed the explosion of a supernova, improved and constructed astronomical telescope. He as the first man actually calculated the so-called Bethlehem star. He found that it was the three-times repeated conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces in 7 BC that was the "star of Bethlehem". Such unique phenomenon which as a matter of course could not escape general curiosity gave birth to the "comet".
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 12 May 2009
Country: Luxembourg
Denominations:0,50 €, 0,70€
UNESCO has proclaimed the year 2009 “International Year of Astronomy”. This year is the 400th anniversary of the first observations made by Galileo with the aid of a telescope.
Astronomy, the oldest of the sciences, is also considered the “Queen” of sciences. The first men who left their caves studied the sky and adapted their way of life to the motion of the sun, moon, and stars. In ancient times, entire states were organized along astronomical concepts and we know of places and objects dedicated to this science.
This is the perfect time to rediscover the sky with our fellow citizens and to help make the sky more visible with reduced lighting. Constellations such as the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Orion as well as stars and planets such as Polaris, Sirius, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars should once again become part of our general culture.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 9 May 2009
Country: Croatia
Denominations: 8 HRK x 2
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 9 May 2009
Country: Malta
Denominations:€0.37, €1.19
It consits of two beautiful stamps depiting Galileo and telescope.The Euro 0.37 stamp features a portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) by Francesco Boschi and one of Galileo’s sketches of the moon set against a starry background including the constellation Orion. The stamp also commemorates the 40 year anniversary of the first manned lunar landing by featuring the Apollo 11 lunar module “Eagle”. The Euro 1.19 stamp shows the great telescope of William Lassell, set up in Malta between 1861 and 1865, against a background of stars showing Nebula M42, which Lassell himself observed on various occasions from Malta.
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 8 May 2009
Country: Portugal
Denominations: 0.68 € x 3
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 8 May 2009
Country: Hungary
Denominations: 100HUF, 230 HUF
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International Year of Astronomy 2009
Date of Issue: 8 May 2009
Country: Aland
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