Alton Jasper, a well-known astronomer, who was first mate of the flier, stepped forward and bound the hands of the mutineers behind them with rope.

In 1832, fourteen-year-old Maria Mitchell, who later became a well-known astronomer, became one of his pupils.

Graham L. Blow (b. 1954) is a well-known astronomer, writer and award-winning photographer.

It is named after Nikolai I. Shakura, the well-known Russian astronomer.

Professor Plakidis was already a well-known astronomer and continued his work in the field of observational astrophysics.

His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, who became a well-known astronomer, working at Lick Observatory.

Porco served as an adviser for the 1997 film Contact, which was based on a novel by the well-known astronomer Carl Sagan.

His son Jan Woltjer Jr would become a well-known astronomer.

By 1700, Wurzelbauer had become the most well-known astronomer in Nuremberg.

It includes more than 1500 biographies of both well-known and more obscure astronomers, produced by 410 contributors.