astronomy Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/astronomy/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:14:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png astronomy Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/astronomy/ 32 32 John Goodricke: The Man Who Discovered The Stars’ Uniqueness https://deafniche.com/john-goodricke-the-man-who-discovered-the-stars-uniqueness/ https://deafniche.com/john-goodricke-the-man-who-discovered-the-stars-uniqueness/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:20:53 +0000 https://deafniche.com/?p=11540 John Goodricke is a deaf astronomer who is a member of the Fellowship of Royal Society since 1786; he made the modern measurement of the stars possible.   He recieved the Copley Medal for his work on periodic variation and size of stars such as the binary star Algol.   Originally born in Groningen, Netherlands, […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/john-goodricke-the-man-who-discovered-the-stars-uniqueness/feed/ 0 Deafness And Space Exploration: A Love Affair Of The Century https://deafniche.com/deafness-and-space-exploration-a-love-affair-spanning-over-a-century/ Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:43:57 +0000 https://deafniche.com/?p=11118 Did you know that we have a comet named after a deaf man? That would be Hassel’s Comet. Did you know that astronomers today would never have had the Harvard Classification Scheme for cataloguing the stars if it wasn’t for a deaf astronomer named Annie Jump Cannon? And not to mention notable deaf astronomers Robert […]

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