Who was Arthur Eddington?
Born in England, arthur Stanley Royal Society.arthur Stanley eddington (18821944). eddington was one http://sci.esa.int/content/doc/ea/28394_.htm Extractions: Homepage ESA Science missions Eddington jump to: Future missions Home page Missions in progress Our missions Past missions Space topics BepiColombo Cluster COROT Cos-B Darwin Eddington Exosat Gaia Giotto Herschel Hipparcos Hubble Huygens Integral ISO IUE LISA Mars Express JWST Planck Rosetta SMART-1 SMART-2 SOHO Solar Orbiter Ulysses XMM-Newton Xeus Venus Express The mission Mission timeline How will Eddington work? Eddington’s orbit … Who was Arthur Eddington? The mission ” It is not too much to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star ,” this was the wish expressed by Arthur Eddington in 1926. An artist’s impression of the Eddington spacecraft superimposed on an image of the double cluster in Perseus (cluster image courtesy of A. Steere). This cluster is typical o
