10 Interesting Fact About Famous astronomers and their discoveries

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• Galileo Galilei is a famous astronomer who discovered four satellites that orbit the planet Jupiter, which is now known as the Galilean satellite.
• Nicolaus Copernicus is an astronomer who first suggested the theory of heliocentrics, namely that the sun is in the center of the solar system, not the earth.
• Edwin Hubble found that other galaxies were outside our Milky Way, opening a new world in astronomy.
• Caroline Herschel was the first female astronomer who was accepted at the Royal Society of London and found eighty -eight comets and galaxies.
• Johannes Kepler discovered three laws of planetary motion, which explains how the planets move around the sun.
• Tycho Brahe is an astronomer who records the position of planets very accurately, allowing Kepler to develop the law of planetary motion.
• William Herschel discovered Planet Uranus in 1781, which was the first planet found using a telescope.
• Carl Sagan is a famous astronomer who is famous for developing a Voyager program, a space exploration program to explore the planets in our solar system.
• Annie Jump Cannon develops a star spectrum classification system, which is used to date.
• Neil Degrasse Tyson is a famous astronomer and scientist who is famous for explaining scientific concepts easily and fun through TV shows and books.