| FLAMSTEED | John, English astronomer who was the first Astronomer Royal (9) |
| HENDERSON | Thomas --, the first Astronomer Royal of Scotland (9) |
| JOHNFLAMSTEED | English astronomer who served as the first Astronomer Royal from 1675 to 1719 (4,9) |
| GALILEO | Astronomer who was the first to discover that the Milky Way was made up of stars |
| BESSEL | German astronomer who was the first to measure the distance to a star |
| RYLE | Martin, British radio astronomer who was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982 (4) |
| EDDINGTON | English astronomer who observed bending of light by gravity in 1919 (9) |
| ENCELADUS | The second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn, the brightest of all its moons, and discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. The surface is almost pure water ice, with t |
| FREDHOYLE | English astronomer and astrophysicist who coined the term 'Big Bang' in 1949 (4,5) |
| HOYLE | English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5) |
| SIRFREDHOYLE | English astronomer who propounded the steady state theory of the universe |
| BERNARDLOVELL | English astronomer who founded the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire in 1945 (7,6) |
| AIRY | George Biddell ___, English Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) who established Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian in 1851 (4) |
| MIMAS | The smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. Its most noteworthy feature is a 130-km- (80-mile-) diameter crat |
| BRADLEY | Edmond Halley's successor as Astronomer Royal who discovered the aberration of starlight and the nutation of the Earth's axis (7) |
| REES | Astronomer Royal, astrophysicist and cosmologist, Lord Ludlow, who was one of the first to propose that quasars derive their energy from black holes accreting matter from gas and stars in surrounding |
| HERSCHEL | English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (17921871). |
| PTOLEMY | Astronomer royal: the French setter's on the next page (7) |
| EDMONDHALLEY | Astronomer Royal who succeeded John Flamsteed in 1720 |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
