Science Fiction was an Inspiration for Many Professional Astronomers - by spacewriter
, and others come into play. The characters and plots set on distant worlds and in other times excite more than the imagination of budding scientists; they often inspire careers in SF itself.How many astronomers actually claim influence by SF in its many forms? That’s what astronomer Elizabeth Stanway at the Centre for Exoplanets and Habitability at the University of Warwick in the UK wanted to know. She surveyed colleagues to see how true it was.
Stanway grouped the survey results into a schematic with five broad regions of interest labeled. They were: the asymptotic SF-lovers branch, the astronomers’ main sequence, the weakly interacting Cloud, the SFH cooling track, and the D clump. Since a clear majority of the astronomers surveyed expressed a love of the genre, they became the basis of what she called the “astronomers main sequence”.
This image contains the initial, informal names used by the New Horizons team for the features on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. Most of these names were approved by the IAU, including Clarke Montes , Kubrick Mons, and Spock Crater. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
In her paper, Stanway shares a table of some of the more colorful references taken from SF that she found. For example, MINBAR comes from Babylon 5, and stands for the
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