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Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and the host of the “Big Picture Science” podcast.
Elliott also founded the UK’s SETI Research Network which he now chairs, with Lord Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, as patron.
He quickly achieved international recognition and was widely considered the foremost astronomer in Australia, carrying out an impressive range of astronomical observations and authoring almost 400 publications, all from his base in Windsor.
In 1963, Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt discovered quasars, beacons at the edge of the universe pumping out 100 times the energy of a normal galaxy.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/19/explaining-the-universe-one-small-step-at-a-time
In April 1969, the ship reached Tahiti, where it stayed for four months also to allow astronomer Charles Green to study the movements of Venus.
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1839965/captain-cook-hms-endeavour-wreck-rhode-island
“In Hawaiʻi, many use an umbrella to block the sunlight as they walk about during the day,” said the UH astronomer.
One of the observers, a NASA astronomer, jumped up and down in excitement when interviewed shortly after the moon had passed in front of the sun.
The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble, an early 20th century astronomer who discovered galaxies beyond our own Milky Way galaxy.
Source: https://www.aerotechnews.com/blog/2023/04/22/on-this-date-157/
The play focuses on Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer from the early 1900s, and her underrated contributions to the field of astronomy.
"Tomer and I refer to HD 45166 as the 'zombie star,'" says co-author and ESO astronomer Julia Bodensteiner, based in Germany.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-star-clues-mysterious-magnetars.html