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Edward Emerson Barnard 1857-1923, American astronomer, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ., 1887. From 1887 to 1895 he was astronomer at Lick Observatory in California, and from 1895 he was professor of practical astronomy at the Univ. of Chicago and astronomer at Yerkes Observatory. The discoverer of 16 comets, Jupiter's fifth satellite (1892), and Barnard's star (1916), he was given distinguished recognition by the Academy of Sciences of France and the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain. His photographs of comets, planets, nebulae, and the Milky Way are notable contributions to astronomy.

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Barnard, EdwardEmerson (1857–1923)Americanastronomer. He discovered 16 comets, including in 1892 the first comet to be discovered photographically. Also in 1892 he found Amalthea, the fifth satellite of Jupiter. He pioneered the photography of Milky Way starfields, publishing a catalogue of star-poor regions now known to be dark nebulae. His catalogue numbers (prefixed by B) are still in use. In 1916 he discovered Barnard's Star.

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