Searchable directory of personal WWW pages of professional astronomers and related space scientists.

History of Astronomy History of Astronomy: Persons &nbsp &nbsp Deutsche Fassung Short biographies and links The following pages include not only astronomers, but also persons with relation to astronomy: Scholars from other fields who did investigations in astronomy, makers of astronomical instruments, etc. In some cases the only relation to astronomy is that a feature on the Moon or on other ...

Astronomers - Astronomy glossary explains basic astronomical terms.

Explore the life of Edwin Hubble, the man who was first able to show that the universe is expanding, and is considered my many to be the father of observational cosmology.

Hodierna's Deep Sky Observations Longly forgotten or neglected, Giovanni Batista Hodierna (1597-1660), astronomer at the court of the Duke of Montechiaro, compiled a catalog of some 40 entries, including at least 19 real and verifyable nebulous objects, found with a simple Galilean refractor of magnification 20, and printed in Palermo in 1654 (Hodierna 1654). This work was listed in the ...

Biography of Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) ...

Biographies and portraits of prize-winning astronomers of the 19th and 20th centuries ...

A collection of in-depth information about famous astronomers, organized chronologically and alphabetically.

Charles Messier (June 26, 1730 - April 12, 1817) The Hotel de Cluny in Paris where Messier observed as it appeared in his day. The tower just to the right of center was his observatory and had a glass structure atop it. The tower at Hotel de Cluny stands today, minus the glass structure at the top. Charles Messier was born in Badonvillier, Lorraine, France (20 miles from Luneville), as the ...

Who are the Black Astronomers & Astrophysicists Beth A. Brown Arthur B.C. Walker Neil deGrasse Tyson From an article (in pdf) From Banneker to Best: Some Stellar Careers In Astronomy and Astrophysics, an article on Black Astronomers by Robert Fikes: Studying the alignment of nineteen megaliths near Kenya's Lake Turkana in the Rift Valley, a region inhabited by the ancient Cushites, ...

The story of his life to 1868 ... | In Jamaica 1868-76. | And after that ... Jean Houzeau in Jamaica Jean Charles Houzeau (1820-1888) was a Belgian astronomer who was the Director of the Brussels Observatory from 1876 to 1883. This article on Jean Houzeau is now complete for the time being. A plan of the area where Houzeau lived for most of his stay in Jamaica is now on the site. Joy Lumsden ...

British Astronomer Royal at the Royal Greenwich Observatory - Holders of the post: John Flamsteed, Edmond Halley, James Bradley, Nathaniel Bliss, Nevil Maskelyne, John Pond, George Biddell Airy, William Henry Mahoney Christie, Frank Watson Dyson, Harold Spencer Jones, & Wooley ...