In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude) should pass through ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. The Prime Meridian was set in 1884 using the large Transit ...

The prime meridian runs through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, just outside London. Everywhere in the world measures time and distances from this line, which is marked on all world maps. On the ...

__1884: __Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude. The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second ...

The prime meridian has shifted a few hundred feet. An astronomer helped figure out why. In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's ...

The Meridian line is an imaginary line which runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It runs through the main telescope at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, south-east London. The point is known ...

Madhya Pradesh's newly appointed Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Saturday claimed that the Prime Meridian, the line of longitude that is used as the global reference for time, passes through Ujjain.

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1884: __Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude. The late 19th century was an era ...