Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects, space, and the physical universe, generally regarded as the oldest of the natural sciences.
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Founded YearMarks the founding of modern heliocentric astronomy through Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543); astronomy as an observational practice dates back to antiquity. Central QuestionWhat is the universe made of, given that dark matter and dark energy, together thought to form ninety six percent of its mass and energy, remain undetected by any means beyond their gravitational and cosmological effects? 2 ScopeAstronomy studies celestial objects and the phenomena of the cosmos beyond Earth's atmosphere, from planets and stars to galaxies, using mathematics, physics and chemistry to interpret them. 2 SignificanceOne of humanity's oldest sciences, astronomy shifted from calendar keeping observation among ancient civilizations to a mathematically predictive discipline with Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model during the Renaissance. The terms astronomy and astrophysics are now broadly synonymous in modern usage, with astrophysics denoting the physics oriented study of how celestial objects behave. 2 Astronomy
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Astronomer and telescope maker; discovered Uranus (1781) and infrared radiation (1800).
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The armillary sphere models the celestial sphere's great circles and was a standard demonstration and observational instrument of pre-telescopic astronomy.
Astrolabe, Instruments The astrolabe measures the altitude of celestial bodies and was the principal portable astronomical computer of antiquity through the Islamic Golden Age and medieval Europe.
The meridian circle times a star's transit across the local meridian to fix its precise position, the standard instrument of positional astronomy for two centuries.
Orrery, Instruments A teaching and demonstration model of the Solar System's planetary motions.
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Sextant, Instruments Celestial navigation fixes a position from the measured angle between a celestial body and the horizon.
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Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry to explain their origin and their overall evolution.
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is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos
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In the science of astronomy, physical cosmology is concerned with the study of the chronology of the universe, the observable universe's origin, its large-scale structures and dynamics, and the ultimate fate of the universe.
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is known for her contributions to astronomy, mathematics, and poetry
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Subsequently, Borucki's attention turned to extrasolar planets and their detection, particularly through the transit method.
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Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, (; 12 August 1919-5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist.
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Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including the dwarf planet Eris, which was originally thought to
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John Flamsteed (19 August 1646-31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.
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Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem (14 April 1629-8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
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Fritz Zwicky (; ; February 14, 1898, February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer.
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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889, September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer.
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Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (; 4 May 1718-30 November 1751) was a Swiss astronomer.
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Karl Ludwig Harding (29 September 1765-31 August 1834) was a German astronomer, who discovered Juno, the third asteroid of the main-belt in 1804.
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Giovanni Battista Hodierna, also spelled as Odierna (13 April 1597-6 April 1660) was an Italian astronomer at the court of Giulio Tomasi, Duke of Palma (Palma di Montechiaro).
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William Lassell (18 June 1799-5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer.
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Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (; 15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
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Carl Gustav Witt (29 October 1866-3 January 1946) was a German astronomer and discoverer of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin.
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857-21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne;, ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist.
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish astrophysicist and radio astronomer who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar.
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Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) () was an Indian mathematician and astronomer (jyotirvid) who founded the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.
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Giuseppe Piazzi (16 July 1746-22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer.
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John Couch Adams ( ; 5 June 1819-21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.
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Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812-10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view and identify the planet Neptune.
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Jan Hendrik Oort ( or ; 28 April 1900-5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy.
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Gerard Peter Kuiper ( ; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, ; 7 December 1905-23 December 1973) was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor.
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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (14 March 1835-4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian.
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Milton La Salle Humason (August 19, 1891 - June 18, 1972) was an American astronomer.
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Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835, July 11, 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (; ; 11 October 1758-2 March 1840) was a German astronomer.
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Gerolamo Cardano (; also Girolamo or Geronimo; ; ; 24 September 1501, 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and
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Herbert Friedman (June 21, 1916, September 9, 2000) was an American physicist and astronomer who did research in X-ray astronomy.
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Robert P. Kirshner (born August 15, 1949) is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University.
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Maarten Schmidt (28 December 1929-17 September 2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars.
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Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist.
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Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni (born 4 October 1956) is an Indian American astronomer.
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Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer.
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John Andrew Peacock (born 27 March 1956) is a British cosmologist, astronomer, and academic.
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Ken'ichi Nomoto (野本 憲一 Nomoto Ken'ichi, born 1 December 1946 in Tokyo) is a Japanese astrophysicist and astronomer, known for his research on stellar evolution, supernovae, and the origin of heavy elements.
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Michael Perryman (21 September 1954 in Luton) is a British astronomer, known for his work leading the Hipparcos and Gaia space astrometric projects.
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Johann Goldsmid, better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587-19 March 1616), eldest son of David Fabricius (1564-1617), was a Frisian astronomer and a modern era discoverer of sunspots in 1611, preceded by Thomas Harriot and followed by Galileo Galilei.
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Natasha Elaine Batalha is a Brazilian and American astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Santa Clara County, California.
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Olaf Hassel (12 May 1898 - 22 August 1972) was a Norwegian amateur astronomer.
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Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 11, 1936) is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".
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In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with electromagnetic radiation, including light.
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In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is a proposed form of energy that affects the universe on its largest scales.
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In astronomy, a Hubble bubble would be "a departure of the local value of the Hubble constant from its globally averaged value", or, more technically, "a local monopole in the peculiar velocity field, perhaps caused by a local void in the mass density". The Hubble constant, named for astronomer
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In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object, such as a planet or other object, in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field.
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David Brian Charbonneau is a professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.
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Lennart Lindegren (born 1950) is a member of the staff at Lund Observatory, Sweden, where he obtained his PhD in 1980, and became a full professor of astronomy in 2000. Space astrometry and its various applications has been his main focus in astronomy since 1976. He has been involved in ESA's
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was a French astronomer
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was a Chinese astronomer
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was a Danish astronomer
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was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist and astronomer
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is a Danish astronomer
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was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer
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was a Flemish physician, astronomer
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was a glazier and self-taught mathematician and astronomer
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Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature.
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In astronomy, al-Tusi created very accurate tables of planetary motion, an updated planetary model, and critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy.
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He excelled in numerous fields including but not limited to mathematics, astronomy, cartography, geography, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, hydraulic engineering, poetry, and statesmanship.
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Varāhamihira (c. 20/21 March 505, c. 587), also called Varāha or Mihira, was an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Ujjain (ancient Avanti region in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Bhāskara II ([bʰɑːskərə]; c. 1114-1185), commonly known as Bhāskarāchārya (lit. 'Bhāskara the teacher'), was an Indian polymath, mathematician, and astronomer whose works represent the zenith of the classical Siddhānta school of Jyotiṣa (astronomy and applied mathematics-one of the six Vedāngas or auxiliary disciplines of Vedic scholarship).
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Thābit ibn Qurra (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan Ṯābit ibn Qurra ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ, Arabic: أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرة بن زهرون الحراني الصابئ, Latin: Thebit/Thebith/Tebit; 826 or 836, February 19, 901), was a pagan Sabian scholar known for his work in mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and translation.
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Apollonius of Perga (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος Apollṓnios ho Pergaîos; c. 240 BC, c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his work on conic sections.
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Agronomy, Astronomy, Archaeology, Anatomy, Antiquarianism, Mathematics, Pharmacology, Medical science, Entomology, Mineralogy, Music, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Optical engineering, Soil science, Encyclopedism, Geomagnetics, Optics, Hydraulics, Hydraulic engineering, Mechanical engineering, Metallurgy, Metaphysics, Meteorology, Climatology, Cartography, Botany, Zoology, Economics, Finance, Military strategy, Ethnography, Divination, Art criticism, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Public Administration
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Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan) 'all' and σπέρμα (sperma) 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by cosmic dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms, known as directed panspermia.
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