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Famous Astronomers

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Isaac Newton

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Developed the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.

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Edwin Hubble

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Demonstrated the expansion of the universe.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Discovered that stars are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

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Discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.

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Annie Jump Cannon

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Developed the Harvard Classification Scheme, organizing stars based on their temperatures.

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Vera Rubin

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Confirmed the existence of dark matter through her work on galaxy rotation rates.

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Fritz Zwicky

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Proposed the existence of dark matter and neutron stars.

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Johannes Kepler

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Formulated the three laws of planetary motion.

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Carl Sagan

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Popularized science and astronomy through books and the television series 'Cosmos'.

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William Herschel

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Discovered the planet Uranus and infrared radiation.

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Karl Jansky

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Discovered cosmic radio waves and is considered the father of radio astronomy.

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Geoffrey Marcy

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Pioneered techniques for the discovery of exoplanets in the region of their host stars known as the habitable zone.

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Georges Lemaître

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Proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.

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Williamina Fleming

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Created a common designation system for stars and discovered the Horsehead Nebula.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Proposed the Heliocentric model of the universe.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Formulated the Chandrasekhar limit, the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.

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Hipparchus

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One of the earliest known astronomers, credited with the invention of trigonometry.

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Tycho Brahe

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Made precise astronomical observations that were the basis for Kepler's laws.

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Galileo Galilei

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Made pioneering observations that supported the Copernican theory.

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Michael E. Brown

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Known for discovering many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including the dwarf planet Eris.

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Edmond Halley

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Predicted the return of the comet that was later named after him.

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Arthur Eddington

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Provided the first empirical test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

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Discovered four moons of Saturn and the gap in Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division.

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Antoniadi

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Known for creating a scale to describe the quality of seeing conditions for astronomical observation.

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