Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German astronomer. He found a convenient method of...

been seen in 1956 and the next perihelion is on 30 June 2024. Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered the comet on 6 March 1815 and described it as small...

the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, who described it in 1823, but Harrison shows convincingly that Olbers was far from the first to pose...

Within weeks of his discovery, Olbers had an explanation for why there were two planets in the same orbit. [...] Olbers fleshed out the idea in a letter...

13P/Olbers, a periodic comet Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer Olbers (crater), on the Moon Olbers, a 200 km diameter dark albedo...

Carl Schilling, ed. (1900). Briefwechsel zwischen Olbers und Gauss: Erste Abtheilung. Wilhelm Olbers. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Zweiter Band (in German)...

kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess...

von Neumayer Paul Nipkow Bernd Noack Hugo Obermaier Hans von Ohain Heinrich Olbers Volker Oppitz Theodor Peckolt Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer Max...

Neptune. When Pallas was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers on 28 March 1802, it was considered to be a planet, as were...

Titius–Bode law predicted there should be a planet. About 15 months later, Heinrich Olbers, a member of the celestial police, discovered a second object in the...

comet, or from an internal explosion, burst into pieces? Letter from Heinrich Olbers to William Herschel, May 17, 1802 A now-superseded theory to explain...

astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered and named the asteroid (2) Pallas, a second object in roughly the same orbit as (1) Ceres. Olbers proposed...

astronomer Heinrich Olbers asserted that if this were true, then the entire night sky would be filled with light and bright as day; this is known as Olbers' paradox...

Ceres and 2 Pallas – the first asteroids – were discovered, astronomer Heinrich Olbers suggested that they were fragments of a much larger hypothetical planet...

The Olbers-Planetarium is located in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany, recording about 29.000 visitors a year. It was named after Heinrich Wilhelm...

Friedrich Gauss Francis Wollaston Franz Xaver von Zach Giuseppe Piazzi Heinrich Olbers Jérôme Lalande Johann Elert Bode Tobias Mayer Possible trojans and...

Salaciense Joseph Nunn František Nušl Hermann Oberth Marcus O'Day Heinrich Olbers Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt Otto Moritz Opelt J. Robert Oppenheimer Theodor...

point in space. The object was hailed as a new planet. Then in 1802, Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas, a second "planet" at roughly the same distance from...

official discovery observation at Simeiz. Honoring Olbers This minor planet was named after Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840), a physician and amateur astronomer...

(1777–1855), German mathematician DMP · 1001 1002 Olbersia 1923 OB Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840), German astronomer DMP · 1002 1003 Lilofee 1923 OK Lilofee...

potential as a celestial signaling device in a March 25, 1822, letter to Heinrich Olbers, by which he reveals a belief and interest in finding a method to contact...

(German) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Frank J. Tipler, "Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of Creation, and Johann Mädler...

the evening twilight. Both Flaugergues and Olbers were able to recover it in Leo Minor during August, Olbers noting a small but distinct tail, consisting...

of the crater midpoint that is closest to Olbers. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU: Olbers A — See Glushko (crater). Andersson, L. E...

contradiction was first noted in 1823 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, who posed the question of why the night sky was black. The...

Okuni (Japan, 1931–) Nicolaus Olahus (Hungarian, 1493–1568) Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (Germany, 1758–1840) Gerard O'Neill (United States, 1927–1992)...

Oettingen Hans von Ohain Georg Ohm Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers Johannes Orphal Wilhelm Orthmann Gottfried Osann Heinrich Ott Friedrich Paschen Wolfgang...

Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 320–321. "Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). 1911...

transient lunar phenomena in Aristarchus is an observation made by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 5 February 1821. Contemporary Henry Kater publicly believed...

of astronomy. 1803: Wilhelm Olbers 1804: Giuseppe Piazzi 1805: Karl Ludwig Harding 1806: Jöns Svanberg 1807: Wilhelm Olbers 1808: Claude-Louis Mathieu...