Announcing the Top 40 Greatest Images and Imaginations in Astronomy and Space Exploration
What did the world vote as the top 40 greatest images and imaginations in astronomy and space exploration? During the summer of 2009, AstronomyTop100.com asked more than 700 astronomy clubs and several professional LinkedIn groups related to astronomy and space exploration to select their top five choices in each of the AstronomyTop100.com categories. Here are the results (in chronological order):
The Final Round has begun!
Which of the top ten will earn the #1 ranking?
AstronomyTop100.com Top 40
The following have been voted the top 40 greatest images and imaginations in Astronomy & Space Exploration. Highlighted candidates have extra bonus information available on this site. To view the honorees, place your cursor anywhere over the text of the honoree and click (pop-ups must be enabled on your browser):
Stonehenge
Babylonian Astronomy Records
Chinese Astronomy Records
Inventing the concept of The Number Zero
Creation of the Roman Calendar (46BC)
Heliocentric Theory – Copernican Revolution (1543AD) - On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium)
The Discovery of Jupiter’s Moons (1609-1610: Galileo)
Building the Galilean Telescope (1609)
Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion (1609) - The New Astronomy (Astronomia Nova) and (1619) - Harmonies of the World (Harmonices Mundi)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Newton’s Laws [Universal Law of Gravitation; Escape Velocity] (1687) - The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The Discovery of the Cepheid Variable (1784: John Goodricke)
The Theory of Relativity (1905/1915)
Andromeda Galaxy
The Discovery of Galaxies (1923-1926: Edwin Hubble)
Launching of theWorld’s First Liquid-Propellant Rocket (3/16/1926)
Big Bang Theory (1927-1931: Lemaître)
Making the Mount Palomar 200” Mirror (1948)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Movie 1951)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The Launching of Sputnik (USSR Launch – 1957)
The Space Race (1957-1969)
Yuri Gagarin’s First Manned Space Flight (1961)
The Discovery of Background Radiation (1965: Penzias & Wilson)
Star Trek (TV Series 1966-1969)
2001:A Space Odyssey (Movie 1968)
Earthrise (picture taken by Apollo 8)
Man Landing on the Moon (Apollo 11 – 1969)
Cosmos (PBS Series 1980)
Building the Space Shuttle (1981)
Saturn's Rings (Voyager 2 Image)
The Right Stuff (Movie 1983)
The Discovery of Other Solar Systems (1988: Gamma Cephei)
Building the Hubble Telescope (1990)
Hubble Pillars of Creation in Eagle Nebula (1995 image from Hubble Telescope)
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Building the International Space Station (1998)
Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2004)
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