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Neptune
Johann Galle, 1846
Pluto
Clyde Tombaugh, 1930
Rings of Uranus
James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink, 1977
Charon (moon of Pluto)
James W. Christy, 1978
Ceres (dwarf planet)
Giuseppe Piazzi, 1801
Pulsar
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, 1967
Titan (moon of Saturn)
Christiaan Huygens, 1655
Haley's Comet
Edmond Halley, 1705
The Kuiper Belt
Gerard Kuiper, 1951
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter
Robert Hooke, 1664
Galileo’s Moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei, 1610
Uranus
William Herschel, 1781
Eris (dwarf planet)
Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, David Rabinowitz, 2005
Gravitational Waves
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, 2015
Cyclic Theory of the Universe
Roger Penrose, 2010
Supernova
Tycho Brahe, 1572
Proxima Centauri
Robert Innes, 1915
Gamma-ray Bursts
Vela Satellites, 1967
The Sombrero Galaxy
Pierre Méchain, 1781
Orion Nebula
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, 1610
The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy M87
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, 2019
The Higgs Boson
ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN, 2012
Quasars
Maarten Schmidt, 1963
Exoplanet (51 Pegasi b)
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, 1995
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, 1965
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