Spend the night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with an astronomer who can explain the stars.
The second was named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler and launched in 2011.
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The trophy was presented to the Manchester team by the Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees.
Eros was named by German astronomer Gustav Witt, who discovered the asteroid in 1898.
The British astronomer and broadcaster died at his West Sussex home on Sunday, aged 89.
It will be called "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
"We captured multiple images of Mercury during these rare instances of 'perfect seeing, '" says astronomer Jody Wilson.
Dr Robin Catchpole, senior astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said the red coloration was a brilliant effect.
Also on board were British and Australian historians and scientific specialists including a botanist, botanical artist and astronomer.
Observing the asteroid wasn't easy, said David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
The discovery of infrared radiation is attributed to the British-German astronomer William Herschel, who also wrote 24 symphonies.
The work of solar astronomer Mitzi Adams, left, has improved our understanding of the sun's turbulent behavior.
Claudius Ptolemy and Galen, respectively an astronomer and a physician, and Plotinus and Philo, who were both philosophers.
Dan Kiselman, a Swedish astronomer, will use a telescope in the Canary Islands to look for carbon dioxide.
Mike Montgomery, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, said another force may be at work.
This obscures only 1% of an optical astronomer's view and is twice as efficient as a mercury lamp.
Today Astronomer Richard Binzel stood at the podium and read the final proposal so it could be voted on.
This is known as the Maunder Minimum, named after English astronomer Walter Maunder.
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Finally, Element 112 is now Copernicium (Cn), named for the astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe.
He is a self-taught computer hacker, amateur astronomer and reportedly enjoys writing code.
In 1639, the transit of Venus (its passage across the Sun's disc) was first observed by astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks.
He's an astronomer and serves as the official representative of the United Kingdom.
Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who argued that the universe was infinite, was burned at the stake.
Rees is a big-government guy, even if his Astronomer Royal gig doesn't pay.
Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, noticed a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat in England two centuries ago.
In a popular book called Rare Earth, paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee laid out a pessimistic hypothesis.
Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, host of the long-running The Sky at Night, has died at the age of 89.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast Astrophysics Research Centre, said the light was probably a "random fireball".
Mr. MICHAEL ROWAN-ROBINSON (Astronomer): It would be disastrous for astronomy if we come away from the general assembly with nothing.
"Planets are the rule rather than the exception, " said lead astronomer Arnaud Cassan at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris.
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