Uranus, (i), (ii), (iii)(table), (iv)
van de Kamp, Peter, (i)
Van Helden, Albert, (i)
Very Large Array. See Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA)
Virgo gravitational wave detector, (i), (ii)
Virgo Supercluster, (i), (ii), (iii)
Volkoff, George, (i)
Walker, Gordon, (i)
Walsh, Dennis, (i)
water, (i), (ii)
Weber, Joseph, (i)
Weinberg, Steven, (i), (ii)
Weiss, Rainer, (i). See also LIGO
Welther, Barbara, (i)
Wheeler, John Archibald, (i), (ii), (iii)(fig.), (iv)
white dwarf stars, (i), (ii)(fig.)
Wilson, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii)
WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), (i). See also dark matter
Wolszczan, Alex, (i)
Wordsworth, William, (i)
Wulf, Theodor, (i)
X-rays, (i), (ii), (iii)(fig.), (iv), (v). See also quasars
Zel’dovich, Yakov, (i)
Zwicky, Fritz, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)(fig.), (v), (vi), (vii)
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