People in Astronomy
Aristotle
believed the Earth was the center of the universe
Lemaitre
developed the Big Bang Theory
Lassell
discovered Hyperion, one of Saturn's moons, along with William and George Bond
Galle
discovered Neptune along with John Couch Adam
Tombaugh
discovered Pluto
Huygens
discovered Titan, the largest moon of Saturn
Lassell
discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune
Flamsteed
discovered a new star in Cassiopeia
Piazzi
discovered the first and largest asteroid
Cassini
discovered the four moons of Saturn
Herschel
discovered the planet Uranus
Hertzsprung
discovered the relationship between a star's temperature and brightness with Russell
Lomonosov
discovered the surface of Venus was noxious and hot
Asaph Hall
discovered the two moons of Mars, Phobos, and Deimos
Galileo
invented the first telescope and discovered the four moons of Jupiter
Messier
made a list of comets in the 1700s
Hipparchus
made the first catalog of stars and the first map of the skies
Johannes Bayer
named the stars by assigning them to constellations and giving them Greek letters
Halley
predicted the return of a comet, which was eventually named after me
Thomas Harriot
published the first moon map
Copernicus
realized the planets go around the sun
Hubble
showed that other galaxies existed and observed that the universe was expanding
Hawking
study black holes and the subatomic particles that radiate from them
Ptolemy
theory of the universe was held as law for thousands of years even though I was wrong