WIll You be a Famous Astronomer?

Have you ever dreamed of being a famous astronomer some day? It is possible you know. You could be gazing at the stars through your telescope, and blamo!, you make an astonishing discovery. Until that day comes, I've given you some great reading material about some of the greatest astronomers who ever lived. The people you'll meet on this page have helped humanity get a better understanding of the planet we live on and the Universe we're all a part of.

Without further adieu, let's meet them:

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Galileo Galilei
• Johannes Kepler
• John Baptist Riccioli
• Giovanni Cassini
• Christiaan Huygens
• Robert Hook
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Edmond Halley
• Charles Messier
• Jeremiah Horrocks
• Joseph Louis Lagrange
• William Herschel
• Caroline Herschel
• Benjamin Banneker
• Giuseppe Piazzi
• Johann Bode
• Pierre Simon Laplace
• Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
• Friedrich Bessel
• Joseph Von Fraunhofer
• Johann Franz Encke
• Friedrich Von Struve
• Wilhelm Beer
• Thomas Henderson
• William Lassell
• Sir George Airy
• Urbain Le Verrier
• Johann Gottfried Galle
• Anders Angstrom
• Daniel Kirkwood
• William Huggins
• Sir Josheph Lockyer
• Henry Draper
• Edward Charles Pickering
• Jacobus Cornelius Kaptayn
• Edward Barnard
• Albert Einstein
• Max Planck
• William Fowler
• Joseph Taylor
• Hannes Alven
• Subramanyan Chandra Sekhar
• Robert Wilson
• Antony Hewish
• Arno Penzias
• Russell Hulse
• George Hale
• Annie Jump Cannon
• Maximillian Wolfe
• Willem De Sitter
• Karl Scharzchild
• Arthur Eddington
• Clyde Tombaugh
• Grote Reber
• Edwin Hubble
• Carl Sagan
• Stephen Hawking
• James A Van Allen
• Sir Fred Hoyle
• Alan Guth

I'm sure I haven't mentioned every astronomer who has made a major contribution to the field of astronomy, so if I think of any, I will add them to the list.

Just imagine, maybe someday someone will be making their own famous astronomer page and your name will be on the list! It doesn't hurt to shoot for the stars sometimes :)