https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7 What are some famous astonomers that you can think of, and what are they known for? en-us 2017-04-16 19:25:18 UTC 2019-10-07 15:00:30 UTC hello@padlet.com cpeddy52 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391575862 Galileo, looking at the stars
Newton, gravity
Hubble, telescopes]]> 2019-09-30 20:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391575862 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391648903 He placed the Sun in the middle of the solar system ]]> 2019-10-01 01:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391648903 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391959493 Vesto Melvin Slipher was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies. He noticed redshifts providing the first empirical basis for the expansion of the universe]]> 2019-10-01 15:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/391959493 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393299315 He was an astronomer, physicist, & engineer. Know for his telescope, heliocentrism, and more.]]> 2019-10-03 21:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393299315 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393945613 Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania. Well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, he has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts. His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.]]> 2019-10-05 16:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393945613 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393954687 He studied and determined that motion of the planets rotation around the sun]]> 2019-10-05 16:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/393954687 https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/394497280 Most famous for being convicted of heresy for suggesting that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the galaxy. ]]> 2019-10-07 14:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dfidler1/ybf4c2g0ldq7/wish/394497280