10 Interesting Fact About The History of Astronomy

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• Ptolemaeus, an ancient Greek astronomer, introduced a geocentric model in the 2nd century BC, which argued that the earth was the center of the universe.
• Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer in the 16th century, discovered four major satellites of Jupiter and proved that the earth spinning around the sun.
• Edmond Halley, a British astronomer, predicts the return of comets, now called comet Halley in 1705.
• Caroline Herschel, a British female astronomer in the 18th century, found eight comets and thirty-nine nebulas.
• Charles Messier, a French astronomer in the 18th century, made a Messier catalog consisting of 110 non-climber astronomy objects that resemble comets.
• Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer in the 20th century, found that the universe was expanding and found several other galaxies outside our Milky Way galaxy.
• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut United States, was the first person to run in the moon in 1969.
• Stephen Hawking, a British astrophysicist, found that a black hole can release a radiation called Hawking radiation.
• Sonda Voyager 1 and 2 were launched in 1977 and are still operating today, exploring the solar system and reaching inter -star space.
• The Hubble Telescope was launched in 1990 and has provided the most detailed images of the objects in the universe that ever existed.