Jan Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28, 1900 – November 5, 1992) was an internationally famous Dutch astronomer. He profoundly stimulated radio astronomy. The well-known Oort cloud bears his name.
A few of Oort's Discoveries
- Oort calculated that the centre of the Milky Way was 30,000 light years from the Earth in the direction of the constellation Sagitarius.
- He showed that the Milky Way had a mass 100 billion times that of the Sun.
- In 1950 he suggested that comets came from a common region of the Solar System (now called the Oort cloud).
- He found that the light from the Crab nebula was polarised, and produced by synchrotron emission.
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