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Lyman Spitzer

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American Space Twentieth Century Interstellar

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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Rashid Alievich Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a prominent Russian astrophysicist specializing in contemporary cosmology. His work fundament...

Russian Contemporary Cosmology X Ray

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Michael Brown

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Modern American Planetary Kuiper Belt

8.8 Great

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American Planetary Twentieth Century Pluto

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American Contemporary Galactic Center Accretion

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American Contemporary Supernovae Exoplanet Atmospheres

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Modern Observational Planetary Kuiper Belt

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American Contemporary Neutron Stars X Ray Bursts

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Contemporary Planetary Kuiper Belt Small Bodies

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American Contemporary Planetary Dynamics

7.4 Good

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American Contemporary Mapping Star Formation

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American Contemporary Planetary Rings

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American Contemporary Space X Ray

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Frederick Lamb

American astrophysicist at the University of Illinois known for theoretical models of accretion torques in X-ray pulsars...

American Contemporary Theoretical Neutron Stars

7.0 Good

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Marc W. Buie

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Contemporary Planetary Kuiper Belt Pluto

7.0 Good

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American Contemporary Stellar Photometry

6.9 Fair

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American Contemporary Stellar Massive Stars

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