By Mira Krishnan When I was just a little girl, I would look up at the night sky with awe, surprised that such beauty existed. It wasn’t until I discovered Neil DeGrasse Tyson that I started to understand what really happened in the vast vacuum that is our universe. Tyson was born in New York […]
Category: Favorite Astronomer
My Favorite Astronomer: Galileo
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei is one of the most famous astronomers in the world. He’s often considered to be the father of modern science since he made major contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics and philosophy. He is the central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. As many, the […]
My Favorite Astronomer – Edwin Hubble
Here in 2025, most of us are familiar with the stunning wide-field images from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing hundreds of galaxies scattered across the cosmos. We now understand that the universe contains billions of galaxies, each made up of billions of stars, and that it all began with the Big Bang roughly 13 billion […]
My Favorite Astronomer: Loki Ingalls
By: Loki Ingalls My favorite astronomer is Charles Messier. I love the story of the Messier objects; it’s really funny to me how seemingly random objects that he numbered are now incredibly popular objects for many astronomers to view and astrophotographers to capture. It’s really crazy how one person can make such a big impact! […]
My Favorite Astronomer: William Herschel – A Symphony of Stars
Actually, I have lots of astronomers I admire but I’m going to talk about one who interests truly mirror my own, Sir William Herschel. Born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel on November 15, 1738, in Hanover, Germany, Herschel was immersed in music from an early age. His father, Isaak Herschel, an oboist in the Hanover Military Band, […]
My Favorite Astronomer: Claudius Ptolemy
As someone who used to write an astronomy column for the San Mateo Daily Journal and a huge astronomy fan, I know most of the ancient astronomers but of course, not all. There was a name that kept reappearing in my research that I wasn’t familiar with. I’m not sure if he’s my favorite astronomer, […]