A star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular galaxy. Astronomy (from Greek: á¼ÏÏÏÎ¿Î½Î¿Î¼Î¯Î±) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It applies mathematics, physics, and chemistry, in an effort to explain the origin of those objects and phenomena and their evolution.
2015-02-25T12:30:07-05:00. A former pro-US leader in Iran was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. HIs regime was overthrown in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. Comments
The claim that Hassan Rouhani, the new president of Iran, is a âmoderate,â with whom Western leaders can do business on the basis of mutual self-interest, brings to mind an earlier fantasy common among elites in the West after the death of the Soviet dictator, Leonid Brezhnev, in 1982: that his successor as General Secretary, Yuri Andropov, was a closet liberal eager to reduce the tensions of the Cold War, then nearly four decades old, and thereby make nuclear war less likely.