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Sir Edmond Halley did more than calculate the return of the comet named after him. Learn more about his work with the motion of stars, and his study of Mercury and Venus.

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• Le Verrier, Urbain - The French astronomer whose mathematical predictions led to biography the discovery of Neptune.
• Tombaugh, Clyde - The discoverer of Pluto started out as an amateur who people and society built his own telescopes.
• StarChild: Dr. Stephen Hawking - Tells about the physicist known for his study of black biography holes.
• Ptolemy - An astronomer, mathematician and geographer who lived in people and society Alexandria, Egypt. We know very little more of people and society his life. He classified the Greek geocentric view people and society of the universe, and calculated the apparent motions people and society of the planets.
• Herschel, Caroline - A short biography of the first woman to discover a astronomers comet.
• Bell Burnel, Jocelyn - The radio astronomer who discovered what turned out biography to be neutron stars, also called pulsars.
• Halley, Edmond - Sir Edmond Halley did more than calculate the return of astronomers the comet named after him. Learn more about his work astronomers with the motion of stars, and his study of Mercury astronomers and Venus.
• Adams, John Couch - The first to mathematically predict an unknown planet, biography his calculations were ignored and someone else discovered biography Neptune.
• Famous Astronomers - Features profiles of various astronomers of fame, from astronomers Galileo to Ptolemy.

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