All Astronomers Behind Space Science

Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571-15 November 1630) was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist.

Frank Donald Drake (May 28, 1930, September 2, 2022) was an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt (; July 4, 1868, December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer.

Antony Hewish (11 May 1924-13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars.

Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell ( LUV-əl; 31 August 1913-6 August 2012) was a British physicist and radio astronomer.

Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918-14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g.

Vesto Melvin Slipher (; November 11, 1875, November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies.

Frederick William Herschel ( HUR-shəl; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 15 November 1738-25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750-9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒozɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811-23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.

Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713-21 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.

Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (15 May 1857-21 May 1911) was a Scottish astronomer.

Pierre François André Méchain (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744-20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893, June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

Karl Ludwig Harding (29 September 1765-31 August 1834) was a German astronomer, who discovered Juno, the third asteroid of the main-belt in 1804.

Giovanni Battista Hodierna, also spelled as Odierna (13 April 1597-6 April 1660) was an Italian astronomer at the court of Giulio Tomasi, Duke of Palma (Palma di Montechiaro).

was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist