Posts Tagged ‘Vatican Observatory’

Little-known nuns helped map the stars

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

The history of astronomy is riddled with underappreciated women who looked to the stars long before their scientific contributions were recognized. But the constellation of early women astronomers is glowing brighter, writes Carol Glatz for Catholic News Service, with the recognition of four once nameless nuns who helped map and catalog half a million stars in Read more

The science-religion divide and the Vatican astronomer

Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

Are science and religion fundamentally at odds? Many well-known astronomers and astrophysicists think so, including Stephen Hawking, who in a recent interview said, “Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation… I’m an atheist.” Other astronomers see no fundamental incompatibility between Read more

Vatican astronomer sure there is life on other planets

Friday, September 26th, 2014

A Vatican astronomer believes there is life elsewhere in the universe, but he says discovering this will neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, said news of such a discovery won’t come as a big surprise. Br Consolmagno said he Read more

Vatican scientists welcome discovery of “god particle”

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Brother Guy Consolmagno, a researcher and spokesman at the Vatican Observatory, has described  the probable  finding of the Higgs boson particle,  the so called “god particle”, as an important achievement. While it has no direct bearing on theology or revelation, the scientific discovery hailed by some as the “god particle” is an important achievement, Br Read more