By studying Jupiter's largest moons while in Jupiter's shadow, Katherine de Kleer and Carl Schmidt saw faint spectroscopic glows of aurorae on these moons. Hubble & other spacecraft had seen moon aurorae before; these data add new color and chemistry. https://t.co/TL6WknWqMG

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Antonia Maury, American astronomer who worked at the College Observatory & discovered the first spectroscopic binary, was born 1866.

Further details via : https://t.co/Pp0yRBMNbr


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Giovanni Battista born in 1826, was an Italian astronomer and a pioneer in the study of the the and

Between 1854 and 1864 he discovered 6 new comets, including the spectacular (C/1858 L1), found in 1858.

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"spectroscopical_passageway" fractal generated though human-computer collaboration, more at https://t.co/iczDJqOEnn

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