People in Astronomy - Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Astronauts
for the social studies and science classrooms, theme decor.

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Astronomers, astrophysicists, and astronauts* study the objects and phenomena that happen outside of Earth's atmosphere (Greek: astro = star).

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences with archeological evidence showing ancient civilizations such as the Babylonian and Mayan measurement of time based on the periodical appearance and disappearance of celestial objects.

Astrology, which shares a common root with astronomy, is the belief that the position of objects in the sky can provide understanding about events in human life.

A Albumasar Buzz Aldrin* William Anders* Archimedes Neil Armstrong*	B Walter Baade Benjamin Banneker Frank Borman* Tycho Brahe Jocelyn Bell Burnell	C Annie Jump Cannon Giovanni Cassini Anders Celsius Roger B. Chaffee* Christoph Clavius Gordon Cooper* Nicholas Copernicus

D-E-F Jean-Baptiste Delambre Frank Watson Dyson Sir Arthur Eddington Albert Einstein Camille Flammarion John Flamsteed	G Yuri Gagarin* Galileo Galilei Owen Kay Garriott* Geber John Glenn* Virgil “Gus” Grissom*	H Fred Haise* Sir Edmund Halley Caroline Herschel William Herschel Johannes Hevelius Hipparchus Jeremiah Horrocks Edwin Hubble Christiaan Huygens Hypatia of Alexandria

I-J-K-L James Irwin* Mae Jemison* Johannes Kepler Pierre-Simon Laplace Henrietta Swan Leavitt Jim Lovell* Percival Lowell	M Antonio de Marchena Bruce McCandless II* Jim McDivitt* Pierre Mechain Charles-Joseph Messier Edgar Mitchell* Maria Mitchell August Mobius	N-O-P-Q-R Isaac Newton Major Nikolayev* Ellen Ochoa Ellsion Onizuka xWilliam Henry Pickering xHenri Poincare Ptolemy Sally Ride*

S Carl Sagan Adam Johann Schall Giovanni Schiaparelli Wally Schirra* Maarten Schmidt Russell “Rusty” Schweickart* Harlow Shapley Alan Shepard* Jack Swigert*	T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z Taqi al-Din Clyde Tombaugh Konstantin Tsiolkovsky James A. Van Allen Urbain le Verrier Wernher von Braun Ed White* Alfred Worden*

Saturn Ephemeris- Babylonian tablet c.500 BC, Giclee Print
Saturn Ephemeris,
Babylonian Tablet
c. 500 BC,
Giclee Print

In addition to preparing an ephemeris, a table giving the positions of celestial bodies at a given moment in time, the astonomer-priests of Mesopotamia put in place the division of the circle into 360º, the day into 24 hours and the zodiac into 12 signs.

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Copy of a fragment of the Dresden Codex showing Mayan astronomical calculations, Giclee Print
Copy of a Dresden Codex fragment showing Mayan astronomical calculations,
Giclee Print

The Mayan, who were advanced in astronomical calcuations, recorded their observations in many books using their hieroglyphic script on a paper they made from the inner bark of fig trees. The Royal Library at Dresden, Germany houses the Dresden Codex, the most complete of the few Mayan books that survived the destruction of the Mayan literature by the Spanish conqueror.

Astronomers Looking Through a Telescope,
Detail from a Map of
The Constellations,
Giclee Print

Alexandria Observatory: an Astronomer Using
a Pre-Telescopic Sighting Instrument, Giclee Print

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People in Astronomy - Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Astronauts for the social studies and science classrooms, theme decor.

People in Astronomy - Astronomers, Astrophysicists, Astronauts
for the social studies and science classrooms, theme decor.