Observing satellites
Can I see satellites from Earth?
Yes! You can see satellites for the same reason that we can see the Moon and planets – they reflect light from the Sun.
Astronomy
Samuel Okoye
Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives,
John Irwin Slide Collection
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Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1939
Masatoshi Koshiba
Credit: 首相官邸ホームページ
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1926
Research Areas: Neutrinos, Detectors, Particle Physics, Cosmic Rays
John Johnson
Credit: NASA
Occupation: Astrophysicist & Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1977
Research Areas: Exoplanets
Beth A. Brown
Credit: Jay S. Friedlander
Occupation: Astrophysicist
Year born: 1969
Research Areas: Black Holes, Elliptical Galaxies, X-ray Emission, Data Archives
Beatrice Tinsley
Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives,
John Irwin Slide Collection
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Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Haida Liang
Occupation: Professor of Physics
Research Areas: Imaging and Sensing, Conservation, Science and Art
"I’m working on the boundary between optical imaging and history… physics and history are the two things that I love."
Anthony Aveni
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Occupation: Astronomer, Anthropologist and Author
Year born: 1938
Research Areas: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy in the Americas, Mayans
Jarita Holbrook
Credit: AAAS portrait photographer.
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Occupation: Professor of Astronomy
Year born: 1965
Research Areas: History, Cultural Studies of Astronomy, African Indigenous Astronomy
Allan Chapman
Occupation: Historian
Year born: 1946
Research Areas: History of Science, History of Astronomy, Broadcasting
"Historians of astronomy…are… people with a broad and open-minded curiosity about those forces which drove human endeavour in the past."
