stars Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/stars/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:14:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png stars Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/stars/ 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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]]> Nyle DiMarco for People Magazine https://deafniche.com/nyle-dimarco-people-magazine/ Sat, 28 May 2016 08:59:53 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9102 Check it out, People Magazine did a spot on the latest winner of Dancing With the Stars! Nyle DiMarco, the deaf model who won both America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With the Stars did an interview spot with the popular celebrity magazine People Magazine. Here, you can see him talk about his feeling on […]

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]]> Did you know…Heather Whitestone is the first deaf woman to win the Miss America pageant? https://deafniche.com/heatherwhitestone/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:40:25 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9009 Heather Whitestone was born hearing in Alabama, US and lost most of her hearing as an infant. From a young age, she loved ballet and practiced it most of the time growing up. This helped her build confidence and encouraged her to participate in pageants. After experiencing several pageants and winning Miss Alabama, she moved […]

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