Le Verrier, Urbain (Popularity:  )
The French astronomer whose mathematical predictions led to the discovery of Neptune.
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Tombaugh, Clyde (Popularity: )
The discoverer of Pluto started out as an amateur who built his own telescopes.
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StarChild: Dr. Carl Sagan (Popularity: )
Tells about the science who sought to make the universe clearer to the ordinary person.
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Famous Astronomers (Popularity: )
Features profiles of various astronomers of fame, from Galileo to Ptolemy.
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StarChild: Dr. Stephen Hawking (Popularity: )
Tells about the physicist known for his study of black holes.
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Brahe, Tycho (Popularity: )
Danish astronomer who did the most accurate measurements of the sky ever made without a telescope.
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Eratho (Popularity: )
Brief information on Eratosthenes, including when and where he was born, as well as later historians that followed up on ...
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Ptolemy (Popularity: )
An astronomer, mathematician and geographer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. We know very little more of his life. He classified ...
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Kepler, Johannes (Popularity: )
The son of a mercenary soldier and an innkeeper's daughter who later became a brilliant and prolific mathematician and astronomer, ...
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Brahe, Tycho (Popularity: )
Discover more about this Danish father of modern Astronomy who made precise, comprehensive astronomical measurements. His data was superior to ...
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Kepler, Johannes (Popularity: )
German astronomer Johannes Kepler was a supporter of the Copernican model of the universe. Find out more about his life ...
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Halley, Edmond (Popularity: )
Sir Edmond Halley did more than calculate the return of the comet named after him. Learn more about his work ...
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Herschel, Caroline (Popularity: )
A short biography of the first woman to discover a comet.
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Hubble, Edwin (Popularity: )
A biography of a man who expanded our view of the universe.
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Adams, John Couch (Popularity: )
The first to mathematically predict an unknown planet, his calculations were ignored and someone else discovered Neptune.
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Bell Burnel, Jocelyn (Popularity: )
The radio astronomer who discovered what turned out to be neutron stars, also called pulsars.
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Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Popularity: )
The man whose name means "shining" in Sanskrit figured out exactly what makes stars shine.
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