ASTRONOMY FACES
Adams | John Couch Adams predicted the existence of Neptune. |
Bode | Johann Bode. Bode's law of planetary spacing. |
Brahe | Tycho Brahe made accurate observations unaided by telescopes |
Cassini | Giovanni Cassini first observed Saturn's moons and ring gap. |
Copernicus | Nicolas Copernicus proposed a heliocentric solar system. |
Eddington | Arthur Eddington: pioneer in stellar astrophysics and general relativity. |
Encke | Johann Encke. Encke's gap in Saturn's rings. |
Flammarion | Camille Flammarion. Double stars. |
Flamsteed | John Flamsteed. Founded Greenwich Observatory. |
Halley | Edmond Halley predicted the return of his famous comet. |
C. Herschel | Caroline Herschel: perhaps the first woman astronomer. |
J. Herschel | John Herschel, son of William. |
W. Herschel | Sir William Herschel, brother of Caroline, discovered the planet Uranus. |
Hevelius | Johannes Hevelius. The first lunar map. |
Hind | John Russel Hind discovered Hind's Crimson Star also known as R Leporis. |
Hubble | Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe. |
Kepler | Johann Kepler discovered three laws of planetary motion. |
Lalande | Joseph Lalande. Star catalog. |
LeVerrier | Urbain LeVerrier predicted the existence of Neptune. |
Newcomb | Simon Newcomb made fundamental contributions to celestial mechanics. |
Russell | Henry Norris Russell, co-inventor of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. |