Astronomy and Astrology
Astronomy is known to be studying phenomena and celestial objects applying mathematics, chemistry and physics, in order to explain the origin of the mentioned objects, the phenomena as well as their evolution, being one of the oldest natural sciences. Objects of interest are known to be including the planets, the stars, the galaxies, the comets and the moons.
The phenomena include the supernova explosions, the cosmic microwave background radiation and the gamma-ray bursts. All phenomena that originate outside Earth's atmosphere are within the purview of astronomy and a physical cosmology can be concerned with the study of the Universe as a whole.
The early civilizations in recorded history, such as the Babylonians, the Indians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Nubians, the Iranians, the Maya, the Chinese, and many ancient indigenous peoples of the Americas that performed the methodical observations of the night sky.
The astronomy has included a few disciplines, such as the astrometry, the observational astronomy, the process of making the calendars and the celestial navigation. Although the professional astronomy can now be considered to be synonymous for astrophysics.
The field of the professional astronomy split during the 20th century into both theoretical and observational branches where observational astronomy got focused on acquiring data from observations of the astronomical objects, being then analyzed by using the basic principles of physics.
Theoretical astronomy is focused on the development of either computer or analytical models that are widely used for describing the phenomena and astronomical objects. The theoretical astronomy is known to be seeking to explain the needed observational results as well as the observations that are used for confirming the theoretical results.
Astronomy is considered to be one of the few sciences where amateurs still play an a quite major role. Emphasizing the discovery as well as the observation of the transient phenomena, the astronomy is focused on making the important astronomical discoveries, such as finding new comets, for example.
Meaning the "law of the stars", astronomy should not be confused with astrology as the last one is known to be the belief system which claims that human affairs can be correlated with the positions of some celestial objects. Two mentioned fields share a common origin, but they are not connected as much.
Using of terms "astronomy" and "astrophysics" can be confusing, but once you know what exact drawing you have to make, then the Astronomy solution from the ConceptDraw STORE can be used while working in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing application.
Pic 1. Astronomy and Astrology Software
Usually, either the term "astrophysics" or "astronomy" may be used for referring to this subject. But, at the same time, being based on the strict dictionary definitions, "astronomy" can be referred to the study of the objects and matter outside the Earth's atmosphere as well as of their chemical and physical properties, while "astrophysics" is known to be referring to the branch of astronomy.
The mentioned term of astrophysics is known to be dealing with the physical properties, the dynamic processes of celestial objects and phenomena, and the behavior and in some cases such term as "astronomy" may be used for describing the qualitative study of the subject. At the same time, "astrophysics" can be used for describing the physics-oriented version of the subject.
Since most modern astronomical research deals with the subjects that are related to physics, the modern astronomy can be called as “astrophysics”. There are a few fields, such as astrometry, that are more astronomy rather than astrophysics. There are many different departments in which scientists carry out the research on the mentioned subject that may use "astrophysics" and "astronomy" depending on the circumstances.
Thus, it is important to take into consideration if the department is historically affiliated with some physics department and the professional astronomers have more physics than the astronomy degrees, or not. Some of the titles of the leading scientific journals in this field may include The Astrophysical Journal, the Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astronomical Journal where more information can be found, as well as other articles on this site.
Once the needed information about both the astronomy and the astrology is collected, the drawings can be made within the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing application as well as the ConceptDraw STORE one where the pre-made templates are all available in the different solutions, such as an Astronomy one.
The Astronomy solution includes seven stencil libraries with altogether 191 astronomy symbols that are all available for all the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM users who have a chance to get both the ConceptDraw STORE application that is available to be downloaded from this site, and the mentioned solution it includes.
Pic 2. Astronomy Solution in ConceptDraw STORE
The “Example 1: Astronomy Picture – Solar System” is a diagram that was previously created in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing application using the Stars and Planets stencil library from the Astronomy solution. The mentioned sample, same as the others (“Example 2: Astronomy Picture — Extragalactic Distance Ladder”, “Example 3: Astronomy Picture — Natural Hierarchy Rearranged”, “Example 4: Astronomy Picture — Summer Triangle Network”, “Example 5: Astronomy Picture — Phases of the Moon”, “Astronomy Picture — Hubble Sequence”, “Astronomy Picture — Orion Network”, “Astronomy Picture — Pegasus Network”, “Astronomy Picture — Planets to Scale” and “Astronomy Picture — Solar System Planets”), all can be used as the drafts for all the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and so the ConceptDraw STORE users for making the incredibly good looking, as well as smart looking drawings within a short period.
