Notable names which have been on the show include British Astronomer Patrick Moore, Coronation Street actor William Roache, Star Wars actor David Prowse and psychic medium, Colin Fry .
: Yū is Miyu's astrophysicist father; he helps his wife with her work and is also hired by NASA.
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The asteroid was named after Minggatu, a Qing era mathematician and astronomer of Mongol ethnicity, who is credited with originally discovering Catalan numbers.
It is named in memory of Francesco Bertelli (1794-1844), Italian astronomer at the observatory of Bologna and professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna.
Giorgio Abetti (1882–1982), Italian solar astronomer, son of Antonio.
Albert George Wilson (1918–2002), American astronomer who worked at Palomar Observatory
The club's motto is "We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night," from the Sarah Williams poem "The Old Astronomer to his Pupil".
Anton Karl Thraen (17 January 1843 in Holungen – 18 February 1902 in Dingelstädt) was a German astronomer and named two minor planets, 442 Eichsfeldia and 443 Photographica.
Arthur Francis O'Donel Alexander (1896–1971) was an English amateur astronomer and author.
Berossus (3rd century BC), Hellenistic-era Babylonian writer and astronomer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Dutch astronomer and prolific discoverer of asteroids
:For the American astronomer, see Charles Hugh Smiley.
This prompted amateur astronomer and writer Gary W. Kronk to search for previous apparitions of this comet.
The asteroid, a main belt object in orbit between Mars and Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Brian A. Skiff at Lowell Observatory’s Anderson Mesa Station in 1984 and the citation was proposed and written by astronomer David H. Levy.
Among the members of her dissertation committee was Carl Sagan, an astronomer and the originator of the Cosmos television series.
Manukyan has dedicated many of his compositions to scientists, such as biologists James D. Watson, Francis Crick, physicists Steven Weinberg, Richard Feynman, linguist Noam Chomsky and astronomer Victor Ambartsumian.
The lander's name refers to 19th century astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, best known for describing the surface features of Mars.
The asteroid 4662 Runk was named by Czech astronomer Jana Tichá after Ferdinand Runk, as Runk had in 1830 painted a panoramic watercolor of the view from Kleť (1038 meters), the location of the Kleť Observatory.
Father Francesco de Vico (also known as de Vigo, De Vico and even DeVico; May 19, 1805, in Macerata – November 15, 1848, in London) was an Italian astronomer and a Jesuit priest.
Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini (b. Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. Noventa Padovana, 26 June 1877) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.
Asaph Hall, astronomer credited with discovering the moons of Mars
Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), Polish astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.
Hamilton Lanphere Smith (1819–1903), American scientist, photographer and astronomer
Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer, and the father of Horace W. Babcock.
Holger Thiele was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the Asteroid belt 1586 Thiele is named.
J. Allen Hynek, an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist
Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.
Johann Hieronymus Schröter (August 30, 1745, Erfurt – August 29, 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.
Between 1847 and 1852 Whipple and astronomer William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, used Harvard's Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.
Knorre had fifteen children who survived infancy, of which the best known was his fifth son, the astronomer Viktor Knorre.
The name of Kepler Kessel derives from the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler who moved to Ulm in 1627 to finish and publish his famous works later known as the Rudolphine Tables.
It is named for Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895) an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University who discovered the divisions of the asteroid belt known as the Kirkwood Gaps.
Knut Emil Lundmark (14 June 1889 – 23 April 1958) was a Swedish astronomer, professor of astronomy and head of the observatory at Lund University 1929–1955.
However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.
141 Lumen, an asteroid discovered by the French astronomer Paul Henry in 1875
The asteroid 4768 Hartley (1988 PH1) was named in his honour, being deputy astronomer of the U.K. Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, with which this minor planet was discovered.
It was built in 1876 on the site of Perley Place, the antebellum mansion purchased in 1870 by British astronomer Thomas Basnett that was originally built by Thomas Perley and destroyed in a fire.
They were named by Captain Cook after the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne as he sailed north from Port Resolution on Tanna in HMS Resolution in late 1774.
Oldland Common is the birthplace of the famous astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, and is home to the Sir Bernard Lovell secondary school, a designated language college opened by Lovell himself in 1972, once attended by England cricketer Marcus Trescothick and Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway.
Together with his wife Helen Calvert Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.
The album's title is a reference to an essay by Kurt Vonnegut (collected in Fates Worse Than Death) in which Vonnegut compares commentators on the intellectual and moral decline of society to the Royal Astronomer in The White Deer by James Thurber, who believes that the stars in the night sky are going out one by one, but in fact this is because he is slowly going blind.
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker (1832–1900), German astronomer Born at Hamburg, son of Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker
This location places SACI students in the vicinity of the Duomo, the churches of San Lorenzo and Santa Maria Novella, and is just steps away from the central market and the new Alinari photography museum.The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.
al-Battani (850–922) was an astronomer who accurately determined the length of the solar year.
Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734 – 1794), French astronomer and mathematician
Nik Szymanek, British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer
Although small by modern standards, the Southern Observatory nevertheless became famous for its role in the discovery of SN 1987A when UofT astronomer Ian Shelton spotted the supernova while attempting to fix another disused telescope at the site.
The astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who first postulated that the universe was made up primarily of lighter elements such as hydrogen, was born in Wendover in 1900.
It sits on top of a hill which is one of the highest points in County Durham, and is the location of an observatory built for Thomas Wright, who was the first person to suggest that the Milky Way consisted of a flattened disk of stars.