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