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Picture-the crab nebula

Famous astronomers- Urbain le Verrier

Urbain le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was born on the 11th March 1811 and died 23rd September 1877 aged 66. He was also a mathematician studying celestial mechanics.

His first work in astronomy was presented in Academie de Sciences in September 1839, but his major work was discovering Neptune. He used mathematics and observations to predict that there was another planet. He spent months doing complex calculations and study Uranus's orbit. He used Newtons law of grvity to aid his result.

Urbain le Verrier 's
grave

• He did not know it, but an English astronomer John Couch Adams was doing something similar. Urbain announced his results two days before John Adams sent a letter to the Royal Greenwich Observatory. On September 18th, Urbain sent a letter to the Berlin observatory and the planet was found by the Berlin Fraunhofer refractor five days later. 

Urbain had a wife and children.

He died in Paris in 1877. His tomb has a globe on top. A phrase was engraved in French which translate into "the man who discovered a planet with the point of his pen"

Picture- a solar flare

This "hoop" of gas will emit electrons that will disable electronics if its too
powerful.

Famous Astronomers- Brian Cox

Brian Cox was born on the 3rd of March 1968 in Chadderton. He attended North Chadderton.

Brian Cox speaking at the
Royal Institute.

He studied at Manchester University where he got a PHD in 1998. In 2003 he got married to Gia Milinovich and had two children Moki and George. George was born on the 26th of may 2009

Brian has published many books such as wonders of the solar system, wonders of the Universe, ATLAS and many more. He has hosted many TV programmes such as wonders of the solar system, stargazing.He has also been a panellist on QI and would I lie to you!  He is a particle physicist who is researching quantum particles.

Well that's it! One more famous astronomer and this topic is done. I will try to keep posting, even if it is picture of the day.

See you tomorrow!

picture- Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B

This Binary system is the closest to our
solar system

Famous Astronomers-Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy was born in AD 90 and died in AD 168. He lived in Alexandria and not many details are known about him.

Ptolemy made many discoveries, but many estimates, which are quite close to what it actually is. He also studied geography and mathematics. He was interested in astrology and soon became an astrologer.

well I'm afraid that's it. Sorry it was short, but I struggled to find details. I might edit this in the short future.
Well tomorrow, we will be talking about Brian Cox.