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    six great astronomers and is a Griffith Park landmark in its own right. The Astronomers Monument pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time:...
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    Griffith Observatory (category Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments)
    many other movies. The Astronomers Monument on the front lawn of the Observatory that pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus...
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    for sculpting one of the astronomers featured in the monument, and in total the monument features six influential astronomers: Hipparchus (about 150 BC);...
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    are not possible. However, this is partly compensated by the fact that astronomers have a vast number of visible examples of stellar phenomena that can...
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    translated and promulgated in other languages, most notably in Arabic by the astronomers and mathematicians within the various Arab-Muslim empires of the Middle...
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    Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Al-Birjandi, and the astronomers of the Maragheh and Samarkand observatories. Astronomers during that time introduced many Arabic names...
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    Astrobiology Astrochemistry Astrophysics Astrology and astronomy Astrometry Astronomers Monument Astroparticle physics Binoculars Constellation IAU Photometry Planetarium...
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    with Johannes Kepler and James Bradley the greatest astronomers of all time. The Astronomers Monument at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California...
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    observers of celestial phenomena anywhere in the world before the Islamic astronomers. Some elements of Indian astronomy reached China with the expansion of...
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    presence of dark matter). It is through extragalactic astronomy that astronomers and physicists are able to study the effects of General Relativity such...
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