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Edmond Halley (1656–1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and geophysicist who served as the second Astronomer Royal from 1720 until his death. In 1705 he published A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, in which he calculated the orbits of two dozen comets and predicted that sightings in...
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Canonical scientific figure whose comet prediction, observational work, and support of Newton earned exceptionally broad historical acclaim.
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Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) was an American observational astronomer who joined the staff of Lick Observatory in California and later moved to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. He discovered Jupiter's fifth moon, Amalthea, in 1892, the first Jovian satellite found since Galileo's time, and mea...
Sharpless 2-68, also written Sh 2-68, is an evolved planetary nebula in the constellation Serpens. Its central star's proper motion through the interstellar medium has affected the nebula's expansion and produced an extended tail, giving the object an asymmetric appearance. The object is studied as...
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Ancient planetary nebula with delicate elongated form and scientific interest, but very low surface brightness limits visual impact.
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Lewis Boss was an American astronomer who lived from 1846 to 1912 and directed the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York. He is best known for compiling the General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars, an astrometric reference based on positional observations and proper-motion data. The catalogue helped orga...
Adriaan van Maanen was a Dutch-American astronomer known for observational work on stellar motion. In 1917, he measured the substantial proper motion of a faint white dwarf star, showing that the star had a significant apparent movement across the sky. The object later became known as Van Maanen's S...
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Known for genuine white-dwarf observations but especially for erroneous spiral-nebula rotation measurements that complicated early cosmological debates.
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