History

One of the first examples of astronomy is the monument Stonehenge in Wiltshire England. He is considered a sort of observatory of the Neolithic era in which it was predicted stations.

In 1609 Galileo Galilei was the first to use the telescope for astronomical observations and create their own theories. He was condemned for not accepting the geocentric model of the Universe defended by the church.

A Galileo was followed by other great scholars such as Isaac Newton who was the creator of the law of gravity and Edmond Halley who studied the orbits of the planets.

The astrophysics as born with the first observation by J. Frauhofer in XIX, which found that the light from the Sun is able to reflect components of the atmosphere.

To this end, the light from the Sun must pass through a spectroscope that it is an instrument capable of breaking this light into colors that compose key. From this point on astrophysics is a big turnaround mainly due to technological and scientific advances.