For thousands of years, people have gazed up at the night sky wondering about our place among the
stars. Today, modern telescopes, satellites, and other powerful tools help answer some of these riddles, but
.many mysteries were solved by astronomers centuries ago
now, we are here to know them!
We Iranian stargazers can also introduce you some of those famous and effective stargazers in the history of Iran
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Sir Isaac Newton
Edmond Halley
Edwin Hubble
Azophy
Eratosthenes
Omar Khayyáam
Ghyath al-Din Jamshid Kashani
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Albert EinsteinAbu'l Wafa
Georges LemaîtrCharles Joseph Messier
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
Herbert A.Friedman
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Friedmann
John Frederick William Herschel
Johann Franz Encke
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Khajeh Nasir-o-Din Tousi
John Couch Adams
John Baptist RiccioliGiovanni CassiniJohann Gottfried Galle
Christiaan HuygensGerard Peter Kuiper
James Alfred Van Allen
Jack Horkheimer
Alfred Harrison Joy
David H.Levy
Joseph-Louis Lagrange(Manali Kallat) Vainu Bappu
Leonard and Thomas Digges
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
Ole Rømer
Giuseppe Piazzi
Walter Sidney Adams
Johann Bode
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Simon Marius
Friedrich Bessel
Seth Barnes Nicholson
Tom Johnson
Edward Mills Purcell
Edward Emerson Barnard
William Wilson Morgan