Astronomy Names

Alcyone

Altair

Altalune

Alya

Andromeda

Aquila

Ariel

Aries

Arpina

Aster

Atria

Aurora

Alhena

Alioth

Amalthea

Aquarius

Arcturus

Auva

Bellatrix

Bianca

Calypso

Caroline

Caroline Herschel 1750-1848 British discovered several comets and was first woman to discover a comet

Cassiopeia

Chara

Cordelia

Corona

Cressida

Callisto

Cassini

Giovanni Cassini 1625-1712 Italian-born French measured rotational periods of Jupiter and Mars; discovered four satellites of Saturn and the gap in Saturn's rings now known as ``Cassini's division''

Ceres

Chameleon

Chandra

Charon

Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 Polish developed a simple heliocentric model of the solar system that explained planetary retrograde motion and overturned Greek astronomy

Coriolis

Cygnus

Cyllene

Draco

Eartha

Edwin

Edwin Hubble 1889-1953 American first to measure distance to the Andromeda nebula, establishing it to be a separate galaxy; later measured distances to other galaxies and discovered that they recede at a rate proportional to their distance (Hubble's law)

Electra

Eris

Equinox

Eridanus

Europa

Fenrir

Fermi

Gaia

Galatea

Galileo

Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Italian performed fundamental observations, experiments, and mathematical analyses in astronomy and physics; discovered mountains and craters on the moon, the phases of Venus, and the four largest satellites of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede

Gemma

Ganymede

Halley

Edmond Halley 1656-1742 British used his theory of cometary orbits to predict that the comet of 1682 (later named ``Halley's comet'') was periodic

Halley

Edmond Halley 1656-1742 British used his theory of cometary orbits to predict that the comet of 1682 (later named ``Halley's comet'') was periodic

Helia

Henrietta

Henrietta Swan Levitt 1868-1921 American discovered the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variables

Herschel

William Herschel 1738-1822 British discovered Uranus and its two brightest moons, Titania and Oberon; discovered Saturn's moons, Mimas and Enceladus; discovered the ice caps of Mars, several asteroids and binary stars; cataloged 2,500 deep sky objects

Halo

Hydra

Isaac

Sir Isaac Newton 1643-1727 English developed theories of gravitation and mechanics, and invented differential calculus

Io

Iocaste

Isonoe

Janus

Jovian

Jupiter

Jarnsaxa

Kalindi

Kamaria

Kore

Kepler

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 German established the most exact astronomical tables then known; established the three laws of planetary motion

Larissa

Leda

Leo

Leonardo

Leonid

Libra

Luna

Lacerta

Lesath

Lupus

Lynx

Lysithea

Maia

Malin

Margaret

Mars

Maximilian

Maximilian Wolf 1863-1932 German discovered hundreds of asteroids using photography

Meissa

Mercury

Meteor

Mimosa

Mira

Omicron Ceti, Latin: "wonderful"

Moira

Magellan

Mayall

Meridian

Neptune

Nix

Nova

Neso

Nimbus

Noctua

Oberon

Orion

Ophiuchus

Pandora

Perseus

Phoebe

Phoenix

Pluto

Puck

Pasiphae

Polaris

Prometheus

Pulsar

Pyxis

Quasar

Rana

Rhea

Rigel

Rossi

Bruno B. Rossi 1905-1993 Italian pioneer of x-ray astronomy and space plasma physics; participated in discovery of the first known x-ray source outside the solar system (Scorpius X-1)

Sagan

Carl Sagan 1934-1996 American was a leader in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence; contributed to most of the space missions to explore Mars and the outer planets; warned that all-out nuclear war could lead to a ``nuclear winter''

Saturn

Savita

Sidra

Sirius

Sol

Starlette

Stella

Suria

Saiph

Solarium

Solstice

Starshine

Stellara

Sunna

Syrma

Talitha

Taurus

Terra

Thalassa

Titania

Taygete

Tethys

Titan

Triton

Vega

Vela

Venus

Vera

Vera Rubin 1928- American measured rotation curves for distant galaxies and ultimately concluded that 90% or more of the universe is made of invisible dark matter

Ymir

Zania

Zenith