Famous Astronomers

• Brahe, Tycho

  Denmark's hottest stargazer

• Copernicus, Nicolas

  Astronomer known for figuring out that the sun is the center of our solar system

• Galileo

  The inventor of the astronomical telescope

• Halley, Edmond

  Discoverer of Halley's Comet

• Hubble, Edwin

  The astronomer the Hubble space telescope is named after

• Kepler, Johannes

  The astronomer who explained planetary motion

• Khayyam, Omar

  The author of The Rubaiyat

• Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph

  The mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune

• Messier, Charles

  French comet hunter who first catalogued nebulae

• Sagan, Carl

   The astronomer who did the TV series Cosmos

See: Index by Occupation