EUROPEAN LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY 2009.

EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik inaugurated the European launch of the International Year of Astronomy 2009' (IYA2009), organised on 7 January in Prague under the Czech EU Presidency. The year, proclaimed by the United Nations in December 2007, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei. Potocnik highlighted the...

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