Astronomer

dwarf planet known as Pluto was discovered! It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh and named by an 11-year-old girl. It was the farthest planet and the smallest. However when it was discovered it was named a planet because they did not have much information about it. They assumed it was a planet. It looked like a planet so they thought it was a planet. 76 years after Pluto was discovered on August 24th, 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto from planet status to dwarf planet. Till this…

going through this journey. In 1990 a telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope, created by an astronomer named Edwin Hubble. Which allowed astronomy to grow creating more hypothesis and theories, based on information gathered from the telescope. The Hubble Telescope is one of the most important scientific instruments in US history. According to spacetelascope.org Edwin Hubble was an astronomer born November 28th 1889 and died 63 years later on September 28th 1953. He…

sunspots as the early as the year 165. When later European astronomers wrote about sunspots, they did not believe that the spots were put on the Sun. That's for their Belief at the time that the heavenly bodies, the Sun, Moon, Stars and Planets were perfect, without any flaws or blemishes. So the thought was the spots were actually something else, like shadows of planets crossing the Sun's face. And that was thought of European astronomers until the introduction…

a "normal" galaxy is in the form of visible light, like that of the radiation of ordinary stars, AGNs are prominent across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Thus, astronomers needed to look beyond the visual regime to see their full potential. Recent technological advancements, such as satellite deployment, have enabled astronomers to explore energies once unattainable. In addition to the showing in a wide range of energies, AGNs also change in brightness on time scales from minutes to…

also the theoretical aspect as well, speculating about the Universe's size, structure and nature, and about everything that the Universe encompassed. Indeed, the Greeks were masters of this art, and their work that has passed down has helped many astronomers that succeeded them to make new discoveries. Pre-Scientific Views of the Universe Before the natural philosophers taught about the Universe, most of the ancient Greeks believed that the world was…

Being an astronomer will require responsibility, a higher education, hard work, and dedication. Normally to become an astronomer it takes 4 years for your bachelor’s degree in science, then 2 more years for a Master’s degree, and finally 3 additional years to complete your PhD program. To become an astronomer you have to be used to working hard and being challenged with the difficulties of harder assignments…

Researches have located a truly colossal black hole at the heart of the recently discovered galaxy known as SAGE0536AGN. The oddly enormous supermassive black hole is approximately thirty times larger than it should be and astronomers cannot seem to figure out why. Researchers from U.K.’s Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire have recently discovered a new black hole that defies all logic. The galaxy, which houses this supermassive black hole, was discovered using NASA’s…

Space Telescope, COBE and the Planck satellite. Astronomers and Scientists currently estimate that the Big Bang occurred just under 14 billion years ago.Without the invention of telescopes our understanding of the universe and space would be based on beliefs and myths from different cultures rather than factual evidence. Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope is a significant piece of technology that has assisted scientists and astronomers to develop a deeper…

She was a British-born American Astronomer who viewed the spectra of the stellar and solar atmospheres differently than the accepted wisdom of the time. Payne discovered that the stars were composed of mainly Hydrogen and Helium and that they could be classified according to their temperatures…

The Renaissance era was one of tremendous modifications in European archives. (Background) The Renaissance, alias Middle Ages, stretches from around 500 CE to about the 1300’s, illiteracy was omnipresent in Europe at the time. Over 85 percent of Europe’s population consist of peasants, alias serfs. (Slaves who worked for the Lord and his estate.) Furthermore, during this period, the people of Europe depended upon the Bible to justify the world. (Background) In the 1300’s, humanism; which praised…