When Clyde Tombaugh built his first telescope at the age of 20, he could not have known it was setting him forward on a path that would eventually lead to the discovery of the first known dwarf planet, Pluto. Let's take a look at the life of this amazing person. Early life and famil...
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I had known him when I was a graduate student at Berkeley. And I had some ideas, and I brought them to him and he liked them. Together, we did this work which you can easily see up there. There it is. 00:00 CA: It led to you publishing a famous paper together. Can...
NASA landed two beetle-shaped spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, on the surface of Mars. It was the first time the agency had reached the surface of the red planet. The landers were interplanetary laboratories, carrying a suite of instruments capable of detecting life. Only a few week...
IN A garden shed in Arcen, the Netherlands, amateur astronomer Harrie Rutten awaits the moment when an asteroid is due to pass in front of a star. At the appointed time, the star disappears, reappears… then winks out again. It turns out the asteroid was part of a binary pair....
astronomers withtelescopes made him a star.3.What made Stephen Hawking a genius was that he was brilliant andbrave.4.Not only was he willing to say what others were afraid to say but alsodream of what others were afraid to dream about.串句成文Stephen Hawking was one of t...
Payne-Gaposchkin’s great insight was to appreciate that spectra from excited or ionized atoms – such as would occur in the hot outer atmosphere of a star – differed from those of neutral atoms of the same species. Sorting spectra Astronomers divide stars into different spectral categories, ...
Also ranks #43 on Who Is The Most Famous Powell In The World? Robert Andrews Millikan Mathematician, Physicist, Court reporter Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurem...
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Was It the English Inventor? Many people think that the 16th-century inventor Leonard Digges created both the reflecting and refractingtelescopes. He was a well-known mathematician and surveyor as well as a great popularizer of science. His son, the famous English astronomer, Thomas Digges, post...