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Modern Astronomy
Spectroscopy, photography, and the discovery of galaxies and the expanding universe.
25 entries.
- Astronomer
Charles Messier
1730 CE – 1817 CE
- Astronomer
William Herschel
1738 CE – 1822 CE
- Astronomer
Caroline Herschel
1750 CE – 1848 CE
- Astronomer
John Herschel
1792 CE – 1871 CE
- Astronomer
Urbain Le Verrier
1811 CE – 1877 CE
- Astronomer
Johann Galle
1812 CE – 1910 CE
- Astronomer
Henry Draper
1837 CE – 1882 CE
- Astronomer
Edward Charles Pickering
1846 CE – 1919 CE
- Astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 CE – 1941 CE
- Astronomer
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868 CE – 1921 CE
- Astronomer
Edwin Hubble
1889 CE – 1953 CE
- Astronomer
Georges Lemaître
1894 CE – 1966 CE
- Astronomer
Fritz Zwicky
1898 CE – 1974 CE
- Astronomer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1900 CE – 1979 CE
- Astronomer
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 CE – 1995 CE
- Discovery
The Discovery of Uranus
1781 CE
- Discovery
The Prediction and Discovery of Neptune
1846 CE
- Discovery
What Stars Are Made Of
1925 CE
- Discovery
The Cepheid Period–Luminosity Relation
1912 CE
- Discovery
The Expansion of the Universe
1929 CE
- Discovery
Evidence for Dark Matter
1933 CE
- Catalogue
Index Catalogue (IC)
1908 CE
- Catalogue
Henry Draper Catalogue
1924 CE
- Catalogue
Harvard Spectral Classification
1901 CE
- Catalogue
Yerkes (MKK) Classification
1943 CE