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Revision as of 21:07, 7 February 2005 by Curps (talk | contribs) (Reverted edits by 216.174.135.2 to last version by Curps)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Do we know who first suggested that the sun is just another star? That's always seemed to me to be a rather massive development in our understanding of our place in the universe... Evercat 00:22, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Hmm, found an answer at . Evercat 00:43, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I thank whoever did the report on astronomy as a job. It was very informative and helped me to understand what my brother was actually doing - :)
Proposed rewrite
With due respect to all who have edited this article previously, I think it could be improved enormously. It containts some very unencyclopaedic writing (e.g. in section 1.1 Introduction), is entirely US-centric, and contains some very broad and sometimes bizarre sweeping statements about what astronomers do. It seems to me actually most of the article could be deleted, and replaced with a much more concise summary of what astronomers do. Would anyone else support a substantial re-write and compression of this article? Worldtraveller 14:54, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Most of the middle section was added December 26 and reads like a school essay about careers rather than an encyclopedia article. I trimmed a fair bit of it, but it could probably still be tightened up. -- Curps 23:06, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)