An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe...

of the following fields: Astronomers and Institutions: links to the corresponding article about the discovering astronomer or institution on Wikipedia...

Look up astronomer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Astronomer may refer to: Vita Hludovici or the "Limousin Astronomer", the anonymous author of...

The Astronomers Monument in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California is a New Deal artwork created under the auspices of the Public Works...

great and small numbers. During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Babylonian astronomers developed a new empirical approach to astronomy. They began studying...

modern day, visible-light astronomy is still practiced by many amateur astronomers, especially since telescopes are much more widely available for the public...

Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – c. 170 AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific...

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the astronomer royal dating from...

Anwā’. The study of Anwā’ was developed after Islamization when Arab astronomers introduced mathematics to their study of the night sky. The first astronomical...

interferometry, developed by British radio astronomer Martin Ryle and Australian engineer, radiophysicist, and radio astronomer Joseph Lade Pawsey and Ruby Payne-Scott...

patent of King George III, the Andrews Professor held the title Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Both titles fell vacant in 1921 but the professorship was...

The Astronomer (Dutch: De astronoom) is a painting finished in about 1668 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is in oil on canvas with...

An Astronomer is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1652 by Dutch artist Ferdinand Bol. He was a student of Rembrandt. It is held in the National Gallery...

though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers make contributions in doing citizen science, such as by monitoring variable...

(/hɪˈpɑːrkəs/; Greek: Ἵππαρχος, Hipparkhos; c. 190 – c. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry...

observers of celestial phenomena anywhere in the world before the Islamic astronomers. Some elements of Indian astronomy reached China with the expansion of...

October 2008 Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012...

Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, living...

true for the discovery and observation of transient events. Amateur astronomers have helped with many important discoveries, such as finding new comets...

The Astronomer's Dream, or the Man in the Moon (French: La Lune à un mètre, literally "The Moon from One Meter Off") is an 1898 French silent trick film...

A Sidewalk Astronomer is a 2005 documentary film about former Vedanta monk and amateur astronomer John Dobson. The film follows Dobson to state parks,...

drought, seasons, and tides. It is generally believed that the first astronomers were priests, and that they understood celestial objects and events to...

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh Astronomer Royal Royal Astronomer of Ireland "The Royal observatory, Edinburgh: Astronomer Royal for Scotland". Roe.ac.uk...

and November. The magazine was started in 1953 with the name The Junior Astronomer. Before 2011 it was a quarterly publication. Before 1981 the journal was...

galaxies of the universe as perceived from the Earth, found by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In 2002, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan...

14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time...

Rubin (/ˈruːbɪn/; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy...

Sosigenes (Greek: Σωσιγένης) (fl. 1st century BC) was an Ancient Greek astronomer. According to Pliny the Elder's Natural History 18.210–212, Julius Caesar...

Spanish astronomer. Working with Rafael Pacheco, he has discovered numerous asteroids. The Minor Planet Center may also refer to fellow astronomer Álvaro...

Francis Graham-Smith (born 25 April 1923) is a British astronomer. He was the thirteenth Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990 and was knighted in 1986. He...