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The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specialized in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy; Martha Locke Hazen (1931-2006), American astronomer; E. Ruth Hedeman (1910–2006), American solar astronomer; Mary Lea Heger (1897–1983), American astronomer who studied the interstellar medium; Charlene Heisler (1961-1999), Canadian ...
This is a list of people who have made noteworthy contributions to cosmology (the study of the history and large-scale structure of the universe) and their cosmological achievements.
This is a list of lists of space scientists. List of cosmologists; List of aerospace engineers; Astronomer Royal; List of women astronomers; List of astronomers; List of French astronomers; List of minor planet discoverers; List of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists; List of Russian aerospace engineers
Wendy Laurel Freedman FRS (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.
Now, an international team of scientists have analyzed the first faintest galaxies (which existed in the universe’s first billion or so years) and identified certain dwarf galaxies that are ...
B. Donald C. Backer; John N. Bahcall; David Louis Band; Charles Edward Barns; James Bauer (astronomer) Timothy Beers; Gregory Benford; Lance A. M. Benner; Charles L ...
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the ...