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Andrea M. Ghez

Andrea M. Ghez is a prominent American astronomer specializing in research at the galactic center of our galaxy, the Mil...

American Black Holes Current Galactic Center

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John N. Bahcall

John N. Bahcall was a prominent American astronomer specializing in solar physics and neutrino research. His meticulous...

American Historical Solar Neutrinos

9.4 Excellent

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Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an American astronomer renowned for his pioneering research into interstellar space and plasma phy...

American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

9.3 Excellent

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Robert H. Dicke

Robert H. Dicke was a prominent American astronomer who led research at Princeton University focused on cosmology. His t...

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9.3 Excellent

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Henry Norris Russell

Henry Norris Russell was a twentieth-century American astronomer whose pioneering work fundamentally reshaped our unders...

American Twentieth Century Stellar HR Diagram

9.2 Excellent

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David N. Spergel

David N. Spergel is an American astronomer specializing in cosmology. He gained prominence through his leadership in ana...

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Frank Shu

Frank Shu is an American astronomer recognized for his significant contributions to understanding galaxy structure and s...

American Stellar Current Galactic

9.1 Excellent

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Stan Woosley

Stan Woosley is a prominent modern American astronomer specializing in supernovae and gamma-rays. His research significa...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

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8.9 Great

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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

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8.6 Great

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Edward Emerson Barnard

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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve

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Russian Nineteenth Century Astrometry Binary Stars

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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse

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History Galaxies Nineteenth Century Nebulae

8.1 Great

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Maria Mitchell

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American Women Comets Nineteenth Century

7.7 Good

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Norman Lockyer

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History Helium Solar Spectroscopy

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Edward Maunder

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History Solar Observational Nineteenth Century

7.6 Good

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Seth Carlo Chandler

Seth Carlo Chandler was an American astronomer who discovered the Chandler wobble in 1891, a small 433-day shift in Eart...

History Variable Stars Nineteenth Century Astrometry

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Annie Russell Maunder

Annie Russell Maunder was an Irish-British solar astronomer who helped create the 1904 butterfly diagram of sunspot lati...

History Photography Solar Nineteenth Century

7.4 Good

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Robert Burnham Jr.

Robert Burnham Jr. was an American Lowell Observatory astronomer and author of the three-volume Burnham's Celestial Hand...

American Catalog Historical Popularizer

7.4 Good

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Margaret Lindsay Huggins

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History Photography Spectroscopy Stellar

7.2 Good