Italijanski astronomer Geminiano Montanari iz Bolonje je bio prvi koji je 1667. načinio zapis o varijabilnosti Algola, a engleski astronom John Goodricke, objasnivši promenu sjaja ove zvezde i regularnost perioda, sugerisao da bi periodično smanjenje sjajnosti moglo biti povezano delimičnim pomračenjem zvezde od strane tamnog pratioca koji kruži oko nje.

Razgovor naslovljen »Biste li krstili izvanzemaljca« zapravo je izvadak iz knjige »Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist« (Brat astronom: Pustolovine vatikanskog znanstvenika).

5. siječnja 1955. godine: Daniel Logue je pola sata promatrao svijetleći objekt na površini Mjeseca, objavio je časopis " Strolling Astronomer " u broju 8. iz 1955. godine

An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland.

The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, " How odd.

Roscoe Hillenkoetter, direktor CIA; James Forrestal, ministar odbrane; general Nathan Twining, nacelnik Avijacije; profesor Donald Menzel, astronomer sa Harvarda i kriptografski ekspert; Vannevar Bush, sef Armijskog Istrazivanja i Razvoja; biolog Detlev Bronk, predsjednik Nacionalnog Istrazivackog Savjeta; general Robert Montague, komandant Fort Bliss a i White Sands a; Gordon Gray, sekretar Armije i upravitelj psiholoskog odjela CIA; Sidney Sours, direktor Nacionalnog Sigurnosnog Savjeta; general Hoyt Vandenberg, ex direktor CIA i buduci komandant Avijacije; avio inzinjer Jerome Hunsaker, direktor NACA (prethodnica NASA); i Lloyd Berkner iz Armijskog Odbora za R D

Long se danas najviše bavi ilustriranjem dječjih slikovnica, od kojih mu je vjerojatno najpoznatiji rad na ilustriranju Madonnine priče za djecu Mr. Peabody s Apples (2003). 2004. izdaje slikovnicu u kojoj ilustrira poemu Walta Whitmana When I heard the Learn d Astronomer

Vijest su prenijeli Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer), Cory Doctorow s portala Boing Boing i Wil Wheaton (sjetit ćete ga se kao Wesleya Crushera iz Zvjezdanih staza: Nova generacija).

It is possible that my liking of the show is based on the fact I would ' ve been a forensic scientist if I weren ' t an astronomer, as well as the resemblance among the characters, their genius minds and social awkwardness and the people I work with on daily basis ever since my undergrad in physics.

2 Isaac Newton (1643 1727) English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian.

British Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Príncipe Island off the western coast of Africa.

Paul McNally (1890 1955) - Jesuit astronomer and director of Georgetown Observatory; the crater McNally on the Moon is named after him

James Curley (astronomer) (1796 1889) - First director of Georetown Observatory; determined the latitude and longitude of Washington D. C

Franz de Paula Triesnecker (1745 1817) - Jesuit astronomer and director of the Vienna Observatory; published a number of treatises on astronomy and geography; the crater Triesnecker on the Moon is named after him

Paul McNally-American astronomer who was a director of the Georgetown Observatory

Coyne (1933 -), astronomer whose research interests have been in polarimetric studies of various subjects including Seyfert galaxies

Gyula Fényi-Hungarian astronomer noted for his observations of the Sun

Christoph Scheiner-Astronomer noted for a dispute with Galileo Galilei over the discovery of Sunspots

There was a 1933 paper by the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky showing that visible matter is only a small fraction of the universe.

Mausumi Dikpati, an astronomer with the National Center for Atmospheric Research predicts a solar maximum for 2012, a phenomena that last occurred in 1958. The sunspot generates intense magnetism that can be felt on the earth.

Maximilian Hell (1720 1792) - Jesuit astronomer; director of the Vienna Observatory; the crater Hell on the Moon is named after him

Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt (1728 1810) - Jesuit astronomer and mathematician; granted the title of the King ' s Astronomer; the crater Poczobutt on the Moon is named after him

Christian Mayer-Czech astronomer known for pioneering study of binary stars

Guy Consolmagno (1952 -), an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory who has primarily devoted himself to planetary science

Others like Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek and Astronomer Royal Martin Rees (in ten pages on collider risks in Our Final Hour) earlier (they have since retreated), and now prominent physicist Adrian Kent of Cambridge and space engineer and computer scientist Richard Wagner say that it could spew strangelets that will turn the earth into a smoking asteroid the size of a football pitch.

Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 1671) - Astronomer; authored Almagestum novum, an influential encyclopedia of astronomy; The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body; created a selenograph with Father Grimaldi that now adorns the entrance at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D. C

Danish astronomer whose work in developing astronomical instruments and in measuring and fixing the positions of stars paved the way for future discoveries.

Giovanni Battista Zupi-Italian astronomer who discovered that Mercury had orbital phases

Christopher Clavius (1538 1612) - Respected Jesuit Astronomer; mathematician; headed the commission that yielded the Gregorian calendar; wrote influential astronomical textbook

To Solomon are attributed, by rabbinical tradition, the Wisdom of Solomon (Ecclesiasticus), probably written in the 2 nd century BCE where Solomon is portrayed as an astronomer, and other books of wisdom poetry such as the Odes of Solomon and the Psalms of Solomon.