I'm an astronomer.

Tom is an amateur astronomer.

Tom is a very well respected astronomer.

First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer.

1860) December 23 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (b.

1661) July 12 Jean Picard, French astronomer (b.

Willem de Sitter, 1872 1934, mathematician, physicist, astronomer.

Jim Bedient, a weather watcher and astronomer, tweeted from Ukraine

It was invented in 1878 by the American astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley.

In 1951, American astronomer Harlow Shapley announced that Proxima Centauri is a flare star.

Karl Schwarzschild () (October 9, 1873 May 11, 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.

Christian Ludwig Ideler (21 September 1766 10 August 1846) was a German chronologist and astronomer.

In the 1790s, English astronomer William Herschel began an extensive study of nebulous celestial objects.

In 1986, when Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh discovered asteroid 3147, she named it 3147 Samantha.

Italian astronomer Giovanni Batista Hodierna observed it before 1654 and counted 30 stars in it.

Discovery and naming Titan was discovered on March 25, 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens.

Jean Frédéric Frenet ( 7 February 1816 12 June 1900) was a French mathematician, astronomer, and meteorologist.

Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (August 21, 1665 December 1, 1729) was a French Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers ( October 11, 1758 March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.

The Kepler Memorial House (Keplergedächtnishaus) illustrates the life of the famous astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.

Micrometer measurements of the positions of stars in clusters were made as early as 1877 by the German astronomer E. Schönfeld and further pursued by the American astronomer E. E. Barnard prior to his death in 1923.

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 14 September 1712) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer.

Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician and astronomer.

After the landing, Pathfinder was renamed as the Sagan Memorial Station in honor of astronomer and planetologist Carl Sagan.

My talk will be in two parts. I'll talk first as an astronomer, and then as a worried member of the human race.

Helen Chappell, a former astronomer who studied physics at University of Colorado Boulder, offers three reasons why she doesn't care about Kepler 22b

History The existence of a continuous stream of particles flowing outward from the Sun was first suggested by British astronomer Richard C. Carrington.

Comet Kohoutek, formally designated C 1973 E1, 1973 XII, and 1973f, was first sighted on 7 March 1973 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek.

To be an astronomer, you have to study, but to be an astrologer, it is sufficient to be a loser and a big liar.

The astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that the Voyager space probe capture an image of earth as it reached the outer reaches of our solar system.

Because they thought that if you are having a telescope, you are an astronomer so what you are doing is actually looking in a telescope.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( 22 July 1784 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician (systematizer of the Bessel functions, which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli).

Discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan was the first known moon of Saturn, and the fifth known satellite of another planet.

In the 16th century, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler attempted to relate the five extraterrestrial planets known at that time to the five Platonic solids.

The French astronomer Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc suggested individual names from the Medici family for the moons, but his proposal was not taken up.

Led by a literary scholar and an astronomer, this new residential college aims to break down interdisciplinary boundaries and enable students to learn from one another.

Led by a literary scholar and an astronomer, this new residential college aims to break down interdisciplinary boundaries and enable students to learn from one another.

Gerard Peter Kuiper ( born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper December 7, 1905 December 23, 1973) was a Netherlands born American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named.

Legacy The crater, Ulugh Beigh, on the Moon, was named after him by the German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler on his 1830 map of the Moon.

It was thus believed for many decades thereafter that Uranus had a system of six satellites, though the four latter moons were never confirmed by any other astronomer.

) See also Flamsteed objects References Further reading The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes, ... Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth.

An early example comes from the great astronomer Johannes Kepler who was obsessed with understanding a different number why the Sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.

Okay, part one starts back in 1929 when the great astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that the distant galaxies were all rushing away from us, establishing that space itself is stretching, it's expanding.

However, in 1918 the Dutch American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was able to measure the proper motion of stars in part of the Pleiades cluster by comparing photographic plates taken at different times.

In 1948, the astronomer Fred Hoyle said, Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available once the sheer isolation of the earth becomes plain a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.