Bath / Washington / D.C. / Berlin / Cambridge / London / /
Company
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / Jodrell Bank / /
Country
Italy / United States / Australia / United Kingdom / India / Poland / /
Event
Person Travel / /
Facility
ESA’s Infrared Space Observatory / Institute of Physics / Trinity College / University of Leicester / Royal Greenwich Observatory / Soviet space station Mir / XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre / /
IndustryTerm
satellite observatory / infrared astronomy satellite / energy / similar search / /
NaturalFeature
Tulse Hill / /
Organization
University of Leicester / Trinity College / XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre / European Space Agency / Institute of Physics / Royal Astronomical Society / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / /
Person
Jeremiah Horrocks / John Couch Adams / Bob Wilson / Bernard Lovell / Caroline Herschel / John Flamsteed / William Crabtree / Edward Piggot / George III / Mary Somerville / Helen Sharman / William Herschel / Martin Ryle / William Huggins / James Cook / Jocelyn Bell Burnell / Friedrich Houtermans / Thomas Harriot / Robert d’Escourt Atkinson / Geoffrey Burbridge / Fred Hoyle / Arthur Stanley Eddington / Jocelyn Bell / Algol / William Fowler / Peter Clegg / Isaac Newton / Margaret Burbridge / Anthony Hewish / Urbain le Verrier / Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin / Edmund Halley / John Goodricke / /
Position
mathematician and author / astronaut / Captain / Queen / President / first Astronomer / amateur astronomer / astronomer / one of the 10 founding members / mathematician / King / first President / Professor / chemist / /
Milestones in British astronomy in the last 400 years: notes for IYA2009 July 1609: English astronomer and explorer Thomas Harriot observes the Moon through a telescope – even earlier than Galileo. Harriot makes his ob