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Astronomers

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  • Illah Nourbakhsh - CMU Professor, World Economic Forum Global Steward, a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of AI and Robotics, and the IEEE Global Initiative for the Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/
  • James O'Donoghue (planetary scientist) – British planetary scientist based at the University of Reading, specializing in the upper atmospheres and magnetospheres of the giant planets, particularly Jupiter and Saturn [28]. O'Donoghue has led pioneering work on Saturn’s decaying rings through 'ring rain', auroras of Jupiter and Saturn and Jupiter's global energy balance [29]. He previously worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow and the Japanese space agency JAXA as an International Top Young Fellow. O'Donoghue is recognized for global public engagement, winning the Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement (EPSC) [30], and his educational animations have reached hundreds of millions of views online, and are used in museums, planetariums and schools worldwide. He has appeared in multiple science documentaries for the BBC, NHK, PBS [31].
  • Galianni Pasquale – astronomy PhD student jailed for sexual assault[32]
  • Damian Peach – British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer
  • Will Percival - British-Canadian Cosmologist at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor, Distinguished Research Chair in Astrophysics, Director, Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics. In top 1% of cited researchers in the field of Space Science in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 . Awarded the 2007 Leverhulme Prize, the 2008 Fowler Prize (see also the Oxford University Press). Co-recipient of the 2008 Royal Astronomical Society team award for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift survey (see also The Times, Australian National University). Awarded European Research Council (ERC) starter grant in 2007 and ERC consolidator grant in 2013. Architect and Survey Scientist for the extended-Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Founder and primary science coordinator for the future satellite mission Euclid. DESI Builder and at large representative on the Institutional Board (non voting) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).
  • Pavla Ranzinger [sl] – Slovene astronomer (1933–2024).
  • Darren Reed (astronomer) - computational cosmology (Darren Reed already used for baseballer)
  • Nobel Asa Richardson (Amateur astronomer at San Bernardino Valley College); founder of NA Richardson observatory
  • John M. Scalo
  • Derek Sears - Is a Senior Research Scientist with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and Emeritus University Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His research interests involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials, especially meteorites and lunar samples, mostly using thermoluminescence and cathodoluminescence. Other activities include simulation of conditions on various solar system bodies, planetary analog studies of volcanism, and the history of meteoritics and planetary science. He has published five books on meteorites and a book on Gerard Kuiper.
  • Boris Semeykin [uk] - Soviet Ukrainian astronomer killed in 1938 by NKVD [33][34]
  • Steinn Sigurdsson – Professor of Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University[35]
  • Owen Bruce Slee – Australian pioneer of radio astronomy.[36]
  • Wm. Bruce Weaver is an American astronomer. He is one of the originators and founders of the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy and its Director for (so far) 52 years. See also: Co-founder Craig Chester (astronomer) already has a wikipedia page. Weaver has a star named for him, see Stars_named_after_people. He is also known as one of the originators of the use of neural networks for classification in astronomy . List of publications: .
  • Ryan M. Williams - American astronomer credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 34611 Nacogdoches along with professor of Stephen F. Austin State University ([37][38])
  • Donald Yeomans - American planetary scientist and astronomer. Made predictions that helped obtain the first images of the return of Halley's Comet in 1982. He worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and managed NASA's Near-Earth Objects Program Office. According to a NASA biography, "He was a science team member for the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission, which deployed an impactor that was "run over" by comet Tempel 1 in 2005 and later approached comet Hartley 2 in 2010. Yeomans was also the U.S. project scientist for the Japanese-led Hayabusa mission that returned a sample from near-Earth object Itokawa in 2010, and a team chief for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission that orbited the asteroid Eros and landed on it in 2001. Asteroid 2956 Yeomans was named after him." He has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA highest award. Has written several books including Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, 2012; Comets, 1991; and Comet Halley - Fact and Folly, 1985. He was born on May 3, 1942, in Rochester, New York.
  • Andrew Ronald Zentner – theoretical cosmologist at the University of Pittsburgh.[39]

Lunar crater eponyms

See List of craters on the Moon
  • Maurice Darney [fr] – French astronomer.
  • Ernest Debes [de; es] – German cartographer.
  • Nicholas Erasmus Golovin [de] – Russian-American physicist and gov. official.[40]
  • Wladimír Wáclav Heinrich [es] – Czech astronomer.[41]
  • Augustine Riccius – Renaissance Astronomer possibly born in Germany.[42]
  • Giovanni Antonio Rocca [it; de]
  • Georg Schomberger [de] (1597-1645) - Austrian Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. Student of Christoph Scheiner; instructor of Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki. Author of Sol illustratus et propugnatus and Demonstratio et Constructio Horologiorum Novorum
  • Heinrich Schlüter [de] – German astronomer.
  • Herbert Schneller [es] - German astronomer; variable star observer[43]
  • Nikolaj Yakovlevich Tsinger [es] - (Zinger)
  • Mikhail Anatol'evich Vil'ev [it]

See the NASA Lunar Atlas for crater nomenclature.

Astronomy

General astronomy

  • Continuum spectrum or Spectral continuum
  • Cosmic shoreline – Relation between relative stellar heating and escape velocity appears to define what planets have atmospheres[44]
  • Cosmogenic neutrino – produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays
  • Dicke Switch – switches input of a radio telescope between the receiver and a resistor. It is named for Robert Dicke.[45]
  • Diverse field spectroscopy – Spectroscopic method to be employed on extremely large telescopes[46]
  • Florence Observatory, aka Regio Osservatorio di Firenze
  • Foreground contamination of astronomical observations, including for stars, clusters, and cosmology[47][48]
  • Gyrosynchrotron radiation
  • Don't see the difference with synchrotron radiation. This paper differentiates the two as "Gyrosynchrotron radiation is the electromagnetic emission generated by mildly relativistic electrons moving in a magnetic field, while the term synchrotron radiation is used to describe the emission from ultarelativitic electrons", but most sources I found define synchrotron radiation as just relativistic. Maybe a historical shift in definition? I'm inclined to redirect but maybe an expert can chime in. Xingyzt (talk  |  contribs) 14:59, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I do, they are quite different (OED sources) [49] [50] @Xingyzt TheTopRocketFan (talk) 23:38, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Your first definition is of synchrotrons, not their radiation. Xingyzt (talk  |  contribs) 23:41, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Multi-object spectroscopy
  • Soft hair (Black Hole Entry and Soft Hair: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01847); current article on 'Soft Hair' redirects to a page about 'Connan Mockasin'
  • Sound of astronomical object - sounds giving off cosmic objects and sounds of cosmic events like supernova, including planets in our Solar System giving off unique sound recorded by NASA

Catalogues, journals, and other publications

Planetary science and meteors

Meteor showers

Cosmology, galactic and extragalactic astronomy

  • Bright galaxy - [54]; alt.: Galaxy luminosity
  • Dark Magnetism - New Scientist magazine issue no. 2867 June 2012 pp.36-39
  • Globular cluster luminosity function - [55]
  • Interstellar scintillation[56]
  • k-essence - [57]
  • List of age estimates of the universe - scientific estimates of the age of the universe published in peer-reviewed journals. The list could include the age estimate (including error intervals), the publication date, the author, and perhaps the method by which the age was derived.
  • List of smallest galaxies
One of the major editors of List of largest galaxies here; this article is absolutely possible, however we do need a systematic search based on what classifications of galaxies are the smallest to make it easier. The strategy done on the largest list is to look for BCGs in Abell clusters, plus a paper by Ogle et al. made things easier by detecting large galaxies within 4 billion light-years. Even if there are no equivalent papers for the smallest, it can still be done by searching on NED and starting with Local Group galaxies and members of nearby galaxy groups and clusters. SkyFlubbler (talk) 18:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Solar and stellar astronomy

Individual Objects and Groups

Stars and star systems

  • 6 Orionis (6 Ori, g Ori) - Flamsteed star in Orion
  • 32 Eridani (32 Eri), one of the few fourth-magnitude stars without their own article
  • 87 Pegasi - Flamsteed star in the Pegasus constellation
  • 113 Herculis - A bright binary that remains without an article
  • AB Pictoris b - extrasolar planet
  • AR Antliae (AR Ant) ← non-notable?
  • BPS CS29491-0069 [66] – CP star
  • DW Cancri – Micronova
  • FR Scuti (FR Sct) – Triple VV Cephei-type system
  • FR Canis Majoris (FR CMa, HD 44458) – Be star
  • FR Cephei (FR Cep) ← non-notable?
  • HD 71622 ← non-notable?
  • HD 71815 ← non-notable?
  • HD 37061 (NU Orionis, NU Ori) – hierarchical triple with strongly magnetic B-type star
  • HD 57682 – a rare O-type subgiant with a magnetic field and sharp lines[67]
  • HD 133729
  • IO Aquarii (IO Aqr) - Three-star system
  • L 34-26 - M-type star that COCONUTS-2b orbits around
  • LP Trianguli Australis (LP TrA, HD 150549) – Alpha2 CVn variable
  • LHS 1070 – triple stellar system consisting of three low-mass stars
  • PR Persei (PR Per, HD 14404) – Pulsating red supergiant
  • R Librae (R Lib) – Mira variable
  • RR Aquilae (RR Aql) – Mira variable
  • RT Capricorni (RT Cap) – AGB star
  • RT Librae (RT Lib) – Mira variable
  • RU Virginis (RU Vir) – carbon-rich Mira
  • Sirius B �� already part of Sirius article, it would need more development to separate it out
  • S Crateris (S Crt) – Semi-regular variable
  • SN 2021afdx - type II supernova in the Cartwheel galaxy that was discovered in November 2021
  • TMTS J052610.43+593445.1 – smallest known hydrogen-burning star
  • T Monocerotis (T Mon) – Cepheid variable
  • U Herculis (HD 148206, U Her) – Mira variable
  • V361 Hydrae (V361 Hya) – prototype of hot pulsating subdwarfs
  • V383 Carinae (V383 Car) – Delta Scuti star
  • V454 Carinae (V454 Car) – Eclipsing binary
  • V6392 Sagittarii (V6392 Sgr) ← non-notable?
  • Variable stars of Pegasus: AQ Pegasi, AT Pegasi, AU Pegasi, AV Pegasi, AW Pegasi, BB Pegasi, BH Pegasi, BK Pegasi, BO Pegasi, BP Pegasi, BX Pegasi, BY Pegasi, DH Pegasi, DI Pegasi, EF Pegasi, EZ Pegasi, GT Pegasi, GX Pegasi, HO Pegasi, HP Pegasi, HR Pegasi, HX Pegasi, IP Pegasi, KT Pegasi, KU Pegasi, LS Pegasi, MS Pegasi, NV Pegasi, NZ Pegasi, OY Pegasi, PT Pegasi, R Pegasi, RU Pegasi, RV Pegasi, RZ Pegasi, SV Pegasi, TW Pegasi, TY Pegasi, V343 Pegasi, V354 Pegasi, V363 Pegasi, V372 Pegasi, W Pegasi, Z Pegasi
  • Variable stars of Perseus: U Persei, Z Persei, RV Persei, ST Persei, SV Persei, TZ Persei, UV Persei, UX Persei, UY Persei, VX Persei
  • Variable stars of Pyxis: AI Pyxidis, R Pyxidis, VX Pyxidis, VZ Pyxidis, XY Pyxidis
  • Variable stars of Sagittarius: V1108 Sagittarii, V2122 Sagittarii, V2845 Sagittarii, V3108 Sagittarii, V3999 Sagittarii, V4997 Sagittarii, V4999 Sagittarii, V5000 Sagittarii, V6144 Sagittarii
  • Variable stars of Sculptor (constellation): AI Sculptoris, AL Sculptoris, AP Sculptoris, AU Sculptoris, AV Sculptoris, AW Sculptoris, BB Sculptoris, BU Sculptoris, BX Sculptoris, RT Sculptoris, S Sculptoris, SY Sculptoris, VY Sculptoris, VZ Sculptoris, Z Sculptoris
    Comment: of these, only RT Sculptoris, VY Sculptoris, and VZ Sculptoris have a useful number of scientific papers published
  • Z Pegasi (Z Peg) – Mira variable

Other

IC objects

Many objects from the Index Catalogues appear to be non-notable by Wikipedia standards. However, based on published studies, the following IC entries are more likely to be notable:

IC 65, IC 133, IC 166, IC 184, IC 219, IC 225, IC 351, IC 435, IC 446, IC 450, IC 467, IC 630, IC 676, IC 698, IC 708, IC 719, IC 750, IC 751, IC 989, IC 1266 (Tc 1), IC 1297, IC 1310, IC 1311, IC 1434, IC 1442, IC 1470, IC 1525, IC 1531, IC 1553, IC 1727, IC 1747, IC 1795, IC 2003, IC 2038, IC 2039, IC 2144, IC 2157, IC 2458, IC 2487, IC 2501, IC 2551, IC 2553, IC 2554, IC 2581, IC 3056, IC 3258, IC 3328, IC 3475, IC 3481, IC 3576, IC 3599, IC 3639, IC 3653, IC 3949, IC 4191, IC 4200, IC 4214, IC 4291 (Pismis 18), IC 4296, IC 4329, IC 4566, IC 4593, IC 4601, IC 4634, IC 4767, IC 4776, IC 4846, IC 4889, IC 4933, IC 4996, IC 5117, IC 5174/IC 5175, IC 5179, IC 5181, IC 5217, IC 5249, IC 5267

NGC Objects

New requests:

  • NGC 3010, NGC 3011, NGC 3012, NGC 3013, NGC 3014, NGC 3015, NGC 3016, NGC 3017, NGC 3018, NGC 3019, NGC 3020, NGC 3768, NGC 3790, NGC 3802

Based upon the availability of published scientific studies, the following New General Catalogue deep sky objects are likely to satisfy the WP:GNG criteria:

  • 0100−0999: complete.
  • 1000−1999: NGC 1311, NGC 1343, NGC 1348[c], NGC 1358, NGC 1377, NGC 1415, NGC 1496[c], NGC 1521, NGC 1550, NGC 1582, NGC 1587/NGC 1588, NGC 1589, NGC 1598, NGC 1605[c], NGC 1663[c], NGC 1711, NGC 1722[c], NGC 1727[c], NGC 1750[c], NGC 1751, NGC 1758[c], NGC 1777, NGC 1778[c], NGC 1786[c], NGC 1798[c], NGC 1800, NGC 1805[c], NGC 1831[c], NGC 1835[c], NGC 1836[c], NGC 1841[c], NGC 1844[c], NGC 1857[c], NGC 1865[c], NGC 1883[c], NGC 1889, NGC 1928[c], NGC 1938/NGC 1939[c], NGC 1948[c], NGC 1953[c], NGC 1962[c].
  • 2000−2299: NGC 2018[c], NGC 2019[c], NGC 2031[c], NGC 2076, NGC 2098[c], NGC 2112[c], NGC 2121[c], NGC 2126[c], NGC 2133[c], NGC 2134[c], NGC 2136/NGC 2137[c], NGC 2141[c], NGC 2154[c], NGC 2155[c], NGC 2156[c], NGC 2157[c], NGC 2172[c], NGC 2173[c], NGC 2179, NGC 2180[c], NGC 2192[c], NGC 2193[c], NGC 2209[c], NGC 2213[c], NGC 2214[c], NGC 2223, NGC 2231[c], NGC 2236[c], NGC 2243[c], NGC 2249[c], NGC 2254[c], NGC 2271, NGC 2282[c], NGC 2286[c], NGC 2292.
  • 2300−2599: NGC 2302[c], NGC 2304[c], NGC 2309[c], NGC 2316[c], NGC 2320, NGC 2324[c], NGC 2329, NGC 2335[c], NGC 2337, NGC 2341, NGC 2343[c], NGC 2345[c], NGC 2368[c], NGC 2383/NGC 2384[c], NGC 2395[c], NGC 2401[c], NGC 2421[c], NGC 2423[c], NGC 2425[c], NGC 2432[c], NGC 2434, NGC 2453[c], NGC 2474[n], NGC 2475[n], NGC 2483[c], NGC 2489[c], NGC 2501, NGC 2502, NGC 2504, NGC 2505, NGC 2507, NGC 2508, NGC 2510, NGC 2511, NGC 2512, NGC 2513, NGC 2514, NGC 2533[c], NGC 2534, NGC 2563, NGC 2567[c], NGC 2571[c], NGC 2579[c], NGC 2580[c], NGC 2587[c], NGC 2588[c].
  • 2600−2999: NGC 2634, NGC 2635[c], NGC 2639, NGC 2658[c], NGC 2660[c], NGC 2664[c], NGC 2669[c], NGC 2670[c], NGC 2671[c], NGC 2673, NGC 2742, NGC 2776, NGC 2777, NGC 2793, NGC 2815, NGC 2820, NGC 2849[c], NGC 2855, NGC 2907, NGC 2954, NGC 2960, NGC 2983, NGC 2989, NGC 2993.
  • 3000−3999: NGC 3010, NGC 3011, NGC 3012, NGC 3013, NGC 3014, NGC 3015, NGC 3016, NGC 3017, NGC 3018, NGC 3019, NGC 3020, NGC 3035, NGC 3065, NGC 3067, NGC 3105[c], NGC 3108, NGC 3145, NGC 3155, NGC 3183, NGC 3265, NGC 3347, NGC 3348, NGC 3364, NGC 3389, NGC 3488, NGC 3496[c], NGC 3503[n], NGC 3572[c], NGC 3590[c], NGC 3611, NGC 3660, NGC 3680[c], NGC 3732, NGC 3735, NGC 3885, NGC 3894/NGC 3895, NGC 3904, NGC 3906, NGC 3917, NGC 3934, NGC 3955, NGC 3957, NGC 3958, NGC 3960[c], NGC 3962, NGC 3963, NGC 3987, NGC 3990, NGC 3991.
  • 4000−4999: NGC 4010, NGC 4016, NGC 4052, NGC 4064, NGC 4079, NGC 4085, NGC 4105/NGC 4106, NGC 4124, NGC 4190, NGC 4191, NGC 4235, NGC 4240, NGC 4248, NGC 4286, NGC 4291, NGC 4337, NGC 4342, NGC 4350, NGC 4357, NGC 4370, NGC 4371, NGC 4373, NGC 4378, NGC 4410, NGC 4418, NGC 4419, NGC 4433, NGC 4439, NGC 4441, NGC 4442, NGC 4460, NGC 4507, NGC 4509, NGC 4510, NGC 4511, NGC 4512, NGC 4532, NGC 4575, NGC 4619, NGC 4650, NGC 4672, NGC 4684, NGC 4756, NGC 4778, NGC 4783, NGC 4785, NGC 4807, NGC 4816, NGC 4852[c], NGC 4922, NGC 4923, NGC 4933, NGC 4967, NGC 4968.
  • 5000−5999: NGC 5044, NGC 5077, NGC 5107, NGC 5122, NGC 5138[c], NGC 5156, NGC 5168[c], NGC 5171, NGC 5173, NGC 5206, NGC 5216, NGC 5218, NGC 5237, NGC 5266, NGC 5288[c], NGC 5297, NGC 5328, NGC 5329, NGC 5347, NGC 5351, NGC 5352, NGC 5353/NGC 5354, NGC 5360, NGC 5367[n], NGC 5383, NGC 5430, NGC 5433, NGC 5485, NGC 5505, NGC 5574, NGC 5606[c], NGC 5635, NGC 5666, NGC 5812, NGC 5813, NGC 5854, NGC 5903, NGC 5905, NGC 5908, NGC 5946[c], NGC 5954.
  • 6000−6999: NGC 6015, NGC 6026[n], NGC 6034, NGC 6058[n], NGC 6146, NGC 6165[n], NGC 6172, NGC 6192[c], NGC 6216[c], NGC 6235[c], NGC 6253, NGC 6259[c], NGC 6264, NGC 6268[c], NGC 6306, NGC 6318[c], NGC 6404[c], NGC 6416[c], NGC 6418, NGC 6438, NGC 6451[c], NGC 6482, NGC 6500, NGC 6504, NGC 6517[c], NGC 6552, NGC 6567[n], NGC 6574, NGC 6583[c], NGC 6643, NGC 6652[c], NGC 6664, NGC 6677, NGC 6684, NGC 6701, NGC 6702, NGC 6703, NGC 6704[c], NGC 6716[c], NGC 6749[c], NGC 6762, NGC 6764, NGC 6765[n], NGC 6802[c], NGC 6803[n], NGC 6830[c], NGC 6833[n], NGC 6835, NGC 6857[n], NGC 6860, NGC 6868, NGC 6876, NGC 6879[n], NGC 6882[c], NGC 6883[c], NGC 6891[n], NGC 6894[n], NGC 6926, NGC 6962, NGC 6996[c].
  • 7000−7840: NGC 7018, NGC 7039[c], NGC 7044[c], NGC 7062[c], NGC 7063[c], NGC 7067[c], NGC 7082[c], NGC 7086[c], NGC 7094[n], NGC 7097, NGC 7123, NGC 7127, NGC 7128[c], NGC 7137, NGC 7144, NGC 7176, NGC 7187, NGC 7192, NGC 7212, NGC 7214, NGC 7226, NGC 7233, NGC 7235[c], NGC 7241, NGC 7245[c], NGC 7261[c], NGC 7296[c], NGC 7339, NGC 7385, NGC 7413, NGC 7456, NGC 7463/NGC 7464, NGC 7468, NGC 7562, NGC 7589, NGC 7618, NGC 7626, NGC 7702, NGC 7743, NGC 7755, NGC 7762[c], NGC 7770/NGC 7771, NGC 7785, NGC 7788[c], NGC 7796[c].

c. Cluster; n. Nebula

Based upon the availability of published scientific studies, some Hubble Ultra-Deep Field deep sky objects should have articles. Click here for a list of Hubble Ultra-Deep Field objects.

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References

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