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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

9.2 Excellent

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John Herschel

John Herschel was a nineteenth-century British astronomer renowned for his systematic surveys of the southern hemisphere...

Southern Nineteenth Century Catalogs Nebulae

8.8 Great

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Volker Springel

Volker Springel is a German astronomer recognized for pioneering work in simulating the universe’s evolution. His GADGET...

German Contemporary Cosmology Simulations

8.8 Great

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Frans Pretorius

Frans Pretorius is an astronomer specializing in gravitational waves and black holes. His work focuses on numerical rela...

Contemporary Gravitational Waves Black Holes Numerical Relativity

8.8 Great

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James Binney

James Binney is a British astrophysicist at Oxford, known for galactic dynamics and the 1988 textbook Galactic Dynamics...

Contemporary Theory Milky Way Galactic Dynamics

8.5 Great

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Charles Messier

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Comets Catalogs Eighteenth Century Nebulae

8.4 Great

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Mike Brown

American astronomer at Caltech who co-discovered the dwarf planet Eris and numerous trans-Neptunian objects, directly pr...

American Contemporary Kuiper Belt Pluto

8.4 Great

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Edward Emerson Barnard

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History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

8.4 Great

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Peter Meszaros

Hungarian-American astrophysicist at Penn State who co-developed the fireball model of gamma-ray bursts, providing the f...

Contemporary High Energy Hungarian American Gamma Ray Bursts

8.3 Great

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Ken Nomoto

Japanese astrophysicist at the University of Tokyo known for foundational theoretical models of Type Ia and core-collaps...

Contemporary Japanese Nucleosynthesis Supernovae

8.3 Great

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Charles L. Bennett

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Contemporary Cosmology Cmb Space Missions

8.3 Great

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Andrew Fabian

Andrew Fabian is a British X-ray astronomer at Cambridge, awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize for work on black holes and galax...

Contemporary Black Holes Clusters X Ray

8.3 Great

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Eliot Quataert

American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University known for work on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, black hole...

American Contemporary Galactic Center Accretion

8.2 Great

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Adam Burrows

American astrophysicist at Princeton University known for theoretical models of core-collapse supernovae, brown dwarf co...

American Contemporary Supernovae Exoplanet Atmospheres

8.2 Great

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Michiel van der Klis

Dutch astronomer at the University of Amsterdam known for discovering kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron s...

Contemporary Dutch Neutron Stars X Ray Binaries

8.2 Great

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David H. Levy

David H. Levy, a Canadian amateur astronomer and science writer, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which struck Jupi...

Contemporary Writer Amateur Comets

7.1 Good

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Alan Hale

Alan Hale, an American astronomer, co-discovered Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 and later founded the science outreach group Ea...

Contemporary Observational Comets Hale Bopp

6.8 Fair

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Kaoru Ikeya

Kaoru Ikeya, a Japanese amateur astronomer, co-discovered the sungrazing Comet Ikeya-Seki in 1965, one of the 20th centu...

Contemporary Japan Amateur Comets

6.8 Fair

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Yuji Hyakutake

Yuji Hyakutake was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake, C/1996 B2, a bright close-passing comet...

Contemporary Japan Observational Comets

6.3 Fair

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Thomas Bopp

Thomas Bopp was an American amateur astronomer who independently co-discovered Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 while observing i...

Contemporary Amateur Comets Hale Bopp

6.2 Fair