  {"id":10167,"date":"2024-06-27T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2024-06-27T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:41:08","slug":"astronomy-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/astronomy-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy in Latin America and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Evidence of the study of astronomy has been found around the world dating back generations.\u00a0<i>El Pais<\/i>\u00a0has an article focusing on Indigenous pre-Hispanic &#8220;contemplations of the cosmos&#8221;,\u00a0<a id=\"OWA1f501c5e-1d56-1f82-f217-e39291fca508\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/science-tech\/2024-05-22\/from-dark-constellations-to-solar-observatories-how-pre-hispanic-america-contemplated-the-cosmos.html\" href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/science-tech\/2024-05-22\/from-dark-constellations-to-solar-observatories-how-pre-hispanic-america-contemplated-the-cosmos.html\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">found here<\/a>. A presentation given for the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club by Ana Maria Milla (Cusco Planetarium) focuses on Inca astronomy, found\u00a0<a id=\"OWAa38592f8-ee3f-334d-c12d-ee5192906005\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IIYzt9T6AoY\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IIYzt9T6AoY\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">here on YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0<i>Science<\/i>\u00a0has a piece specifically focusing on Maya astronomy from ancient findings to contemporary day,\u00a0<a id=\"OWA2173c7c4-a73b-3625-1f85-8f776728d520\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">f<\/a><a id=\"OWA8ab5aa64-034c-5586-6efc-e826f1fb20eb\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">ound here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More information on contemporary astronomy work being done in Latin America and the Caribbean can be found in these articles from\u00a0<i><a id=\"OWAf6e6b079-6e56-0f3a-f2bd-2950b87de6ae\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/communities.springernature.com\/posts\/the-status-of-astronomy-in-central-america-and-the-caribbean\" href=\"https:\/\/communities.springernature.com\/posts\/the-status-of-astronomy-in-central-america-and-the-caribbean\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">SpringerNature<\/a><\/i>, the\u00a0<a id=\"OWA845e4cde-9d0f-fe99-9557-5d6b6a6d5f82\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.astro4dev.org\/category\/latin-america-caribbean\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astro4dev.org\/category\/latin-america-caribbean\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Office of Astronomy for Development<\/a>, the\u00a0<i><a id=\"OWA3704e12b-6593-acbd-d791-6e3ba10f3fd8\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.leidensciencemagazine.nl\/en\/articles\/strand-en-sterren-astronomie-op-de-caribische-eilanden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leidensciencemagazine.nl\/en\/articles\/strand-en-sterren-astronomie-op-de-caribische-eilanden\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Leiden Science Magazine<\/a><\/i>, and the\u00a0<i><a id=\"OWAf2909f17-bc39-29de-30cd-518c0d8ab0f3\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/star-trekking-chile-astronomy-180955798\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/star-trekking-chile-astronomy-180955798\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Smithsonian Magazine<\/a><\/i>. Finally,\u00a0<i><a id=\"LPlnk\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/hopes-fade-for-resurrecting-puerto-ricos-famous-arecibo-telescope\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/hopes-fade-for-resurrecting-puerto-ricos-famous-arecibo-telescope\/\">Scientific American<\/a><\/i>\u00a0has a piece on the aftermath of the Arecibo Observatory collapse.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of the study of astronomy has been found around the world dating back generations.\u00a0El Pais\u00a0has an article focusing on Indigenous pre-Hispanic &#8220;contemplations of the cosmos&#8221;,\u00a0found here. A presentation given for the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club by Ana Maria Milla &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Center for Latin American &amp; Caribbean Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/astronomy-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Astronomy in Latin America and the Caribbean\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evidence of the study of astronomy has been found around the world dating back generations.\u00a0El Pais\u00a0has an article focusing on Indigenous pre-Hispanic &#8220;contemplations of the cosmos&#8221;,\u00a0found here. 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