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Isaac Newton
Developed the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.
Edwin Hubble
Demonstrated the expansion of the universe.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Discovered that stars are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.
Annie Jump Cannon
Developed the Harvard Classification Scheme, organizing stars based on their temperatures.
Vera Rubin
Confirmed the existence of dark matter through her work on galaxy rotation rates.
Fritz Zwicky
Proposed the existence of dark matter and neutron stars.
Johannes Kepler
Formulated the three laws of planetary motion.
Carl Sagan
Popularized science and astronomy through books and the television series 'Cosmos'.
William Herschel
Discovered the planet Uranus and infrared radiation.
Karl Jansky
Discovered cosmic radio waves and is considered the father of radio astronomy.
Geoffrey Marcy
Pioneered techniques for the discovery of exoplanets in the region of their host stars known as the habitable zone.
Georges Lemaître
Proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
Williamina Fleming
Created a common designation system for stars and discovered the Horsehead Nebula.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Proposed the Heliocentric model of the universe.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Formulated the Chandrasekhar limit, the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.
Hipparchus
One of the earliest known astronomers, credited with the invention of trigonometry.
Tycho Brahe
Made precise astronomical observations that were the basis for Kepler's laws.
Galileo Galilei
Made pioneering observations that supported the Copernican theory.
Michael E. Brown
Known for discovering many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including the dwarf planet Eris.
Edmond Halley
Predicted the return of the comet that was later named after him.
Arthur Eddington
Provided the first empirical test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Discovered four moons of Saturn and the gap in Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division.
Antoniadi
Known for creating a scale to describe the quality of seeing conditions for astronomical observation.
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