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Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin

Occupation

Astronomer

Year born

1900

Research Areas

Stars, Spectroscopy

 

A black and white photograph of Cecil Payne-Gaposchkin. She is standing and looking to one side.
This work by Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-1327 is licensed under All rights reserved

Gan De

Occupation

Astronomer, Mathematician

Year born

Around 400 BCE

Research Areas

Jupiter’s movements, Star maps, Sunspots

 

A page from a Chinese astrology enclyopedia that includes fragments of other works.
This work by Gautama Siddha is licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Volume 105 of the 'Treatise on Astrology of the Kayuan Era', a Chinese astrology encyclopedia that contains fragments of other works such as Gan De's star catalogues.

Constellations

Have you ever looked for pictures in the stars at night? Like the sky is a giant dot-to-dot puzzle?

We call groups of stars which form a picture in our imagination, a constellation. 

Star map highlighting the Orion constellation and its neighboring constellations, such as Gemini, Taurus, and Canis Major. Major stars like Betelgeuse and Rigel are labeled, along with other notable objects like the Orion Nebula (M42)
This work by Torsten Bronger is licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
The Constellation of Orion

Finder-charts

A finder chart is a map of a small region of the sky. Astronomers use these charts to find particular stars within an image. 

The charts are also useful for communicating which object on a map is being referred to.

A black-and-white star chart with numbered labels identifying 67 stars, used to locate the NGC 957 star cluster
This work by Fraser Lewis, Faulkes Telescope Project is licensed under All rights reserved
Finder chart for the open cluster NGC957.

Ricardo Schiavon

Early Life

Ricardo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His first degree in astronomy is from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Then in 1993, he got a master's degree from the Observatório Nacional in Brazil. Ricardo moved to the University of São Paulo, Brazil to work on a PhD. He was awarded his PhD in 1998.

Research Areas: Galaxy formation, Observational astronomy

 

"I consider myself extremely lucky to be where I am, do what I do, and to be surrounded by so many amazing people here in Liverpool."