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Astronomers

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  • James O'Donoghue (planetary scientist) – British planetary scientist based at the University of Reading, specializing in the upper atmospheres and magnetospheres of the giant planets, particularly Jupiter and Saturn . O'Donoghue has led pioneering work on Saturn’s decaying rings through 'ring rain', auroras of Jupiter and Saturn and Jupiter's global energy balance . He previously worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow and the Japanese space agency JAXA as an International Top Young Fellow. O'Donoghue is recognized for global public engagement, winning the Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement (EPSC) , and his educational animations have reached hundreds of millions of views online, and are used in museums, planetariums and schools worldwide. He has appeared in multiple science documentaries for the BBC, NHK, PBS .
  • Damian Peach – British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer
  • Pavla Ranzinger [sl] – Slovene astronomer (1933–2024).
  • Darren Reed (astronomer) - computational cosmology (Darren Reed already used for baseballer)
  • Nobel Asa Richardson (Amateur astronomer at San Bernardino Valley College); founder of NA Richardson observatory
  • Morton Spitz Roberts – "Mort" Roberts; radio astronomer, VP of the IAU, assistant director of Green Bank, and pioneer of 21 cm radio line applications
  • Arpita Roy — astrophysicist and Director of Astrophysics at Schmidt Sciences; quoted in independent coverage of the Schmidt Observatory System / Lazuli space telescope by The New York Times, Science, Scientific American, Astronomy, and Sky & Telescope, also involved in early moon research and noted in association with the discovery of India’s first confirmed exoplanet K2-236b (NYT, Scientific American, Science, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, NYT (Moon), Scientific American podcast (Moon), Universe Today (Moon), K2-236b)
  • John M. Scalo "John Scalo has been a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin since 1975, and now is the Jack Josey Centennial Professor of Astronomy. He has been a Sloan Research Fellow. John is a theoretician with close ties to various aspects of observational astronomy. His research interests are wide-ranging and he has published papers on red giant evolution, nucleosynthesis, star formation, galaxy evolution, interstellar medium, turbulence, astrobiology, and complex systems"
  • Derek Sears - Is a Senior Research Scientist with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and Emeritus University Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His research interests involve laboratory studies of extraterrestrial materials, especially meteorites and lunar samples, mostly using thermoluminescence and cathodoluminescence. Other activities include simulation of conditions on various solar system bodies, planetary analog studies of volcanism, and the history of meteoritics and planetary science. He has published five books on meteorites and a book on Gerard Kuiper. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
  • Boris Semeykin [uk] - Soviet Ukrainian astronomer killed in 1938 by NKVD
  • Steinn Sigurdsson – Professor of Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University
  • Owen Bruce Slee – Australian pioneer of radio astronomy.
  • Ivan Fedorovich Timoshenko (1918-1942) Soviet Ukrainian astronomer, has a Mars crater named after him. Died in WW2.
  • Wm. Bruce Weaver is an American astronomer. He is one of the originators and founders of the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy and its Director for (so far) 52 years.[6] See also: [7] Co-founder Craig Chester (astronomer) already has a wikipedia page. Weaver has a star named for him, see Stars_named_after_people. He is also known as one of the originators of the use of neural networks for classification in astronomy [8][9]. List of publications: [10].
  • Ryan M. Williams - American astronomer credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 34611 Nacogdoches along with professor of Stephen F. Austin State University ()
  • Donald Yeomans [nl] - American planetary scientist and astronomer. Made predictions that helped obtain the first images of the return of Halley's Comet in 1982. He worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and managed NASA's Near-Earth Objects Program Office. According to a NASA biography, "He was a science team member for the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission, which deployed an impactor that was "run over" by comet Tempel 1 in 2005 and later approached comet Hartley 2 in 2010. Yeomans was also the U.S. project scientist for the Japanese-led Hayabusa mission that returned a sample from near-Earth object Itokawa in 2010, and a team chief for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission that orbited the asteroid Eros and landed on it in 2001. Asteroid 2956 Yeomans was named after him." He has been awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA highest award. Has written several books including Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, 2012; Comets, 1991; and Comet Halley - Fact and Folly, 1985. He was born on May 3, 1942, in Rochester, New York. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
  • Andrew Ronald Zentner – theoretical cosmologist at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lunar crater eponyms

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See List of craters on the Moon

See the NASA Lunar Atlas for crater nomenclature.

Astronomy

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General astronomy

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Catalogues, journals, and other publications

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Planetary science and meteors

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Meteor showers

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Cosmology, galactic and extragalactic astronomy

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icon Working Draft:List of estimates of the age of the universe SnowyRiver28 (talk) 00:30, 17 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Solar and stellar astronomy

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Individual Objects and Groups

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Stars and star systems

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Variable star lists

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Other

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IC objects

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Many objects from the Index Catalogues appear to be non-notable by Wikipedia standards. However, based on published studies, the following IC entries are more likely to be notable:

IC 65, IC 133, IC 166, IC 219, IC 225, IC 351, IC 435, IC 446, IC 450, IC 467, IC 630, IC 676, IC 698, IC 750, IC 751, IC 989, IC 1310, IC 1311, IC 1434, IC 1442, IC 1525, IC 1531, IC 1553, IC 1727, IC 1747, IC 1795, IC 2003, IC 2038, IC 2039, IC 2144, IC 2157, IC 2165, IC 2458, IC 2487, IC 2501, IC 2551, IC 2553, IC 2554, IC 2581, IC 3056, IC 3258, IC 3328, IC 3475, IC 3481, IC 3576, IC 3599, IC 3639, IC 3653, IC 3949, IC 4191, IC 4200, IC 4291 (Pismis 18), IC 4296, IC 4329, IC 4566, IC 4601, IC 4634, IC 4767, IC 4776, IC 4846, IC 4889, IC 4933, IC 4996, IC 5117, IC 5174/IC 5175, IC 5179, IC 5181, IC 5217, IC 5249, IC 5267

NGC Objects

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New requests:

Based upon the availability of published scientific studies, the following New General Catalogue deep sky objects are likely to satisfy the WP:GNG criteria:

c. Cluster; n. Nebula

Based upon the availability of published scientific studies, some Hubble Ultra-Deep Field deep sky objects should have articles. Click here for a list of Hubble Ultra-Deep Field objects.

Under review

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The following astronomy article requests are under review for notability concerns, starting at the listed date. Due to lack of suitable coverage, an article on the subject may fail WP:GNG and WP:NASTRO, and thus would be subject to the WP:PROD or WP:AfD processes. If you can find suitable sources with significant coverage, please attach them to the link line.

  • HD 74576 – 2026-04-14
    • The article exist in 8 wikipedias, sometimes as Gliese 320, for example ru:Глизе 320, but there are no sources but star catalogues etc.
  • IC 51 – 2026-04-14

See also

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References

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