Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A shekara ta 1849, Rutherfurd ya yi watsi da karatun shari'a don ya ba da lokacinsa ga kimiyya, musamman ilimin taurari. Ya yi aikin farko a cikin nazarin bakan, kuma yayi gwaji tare da daukar hoto na sama. Ya ƙirƙira kayan aiki don karatunsa, gami da micrometer don auna hotuna, na'ura don samar da ingantattun hanyoyin rarrabuwa, da kuma na'urar hangen nesa ta farko da aka tsara musamman don astrophotography.Ta amfani da kayan aikinsa, Rutherfurd ya samar da tarin hotuna masu inganci na Sun, Moon, da taurari, da kuma taurarin taurari da taurari har zuwa girma na biyar. A cikin 1862, ya fara yin nazarin spectroscopic ta amfani da sabon sautin sautin sa. Ya lura da nau'ikan nau'ikan nau'ikan taurari, wanda Angelo Secchi ya faɗaɗa a cikin 1867 don lissafin jerin nau'ikan taurari huɗu.Rutherfurd ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da Jami'ar Columbia daga 1858 zuwa 1884, kuma ya ba da hotunansa ga wannan cibiyar.A 1873, sai Shugaba Ulysses S. Grant ya nada Rutherfurd ɗaya daga cikin kwamiti na kimiyya don halartar Nunin Vienna, duk da haka, ya ƙi girmamawa saboda alkawurran kasuwanci na baya a Amurka. A cikin 1884, Shugaba Chester A. Arthur ya sanya shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin wakilai zuwa Taron Meridian na Duniya wanda ya haɗu a Washington a watan Oktoba, 1885.Ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin membobin asali na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kasa da aka kirkira a 1863, kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin ƙungiyar Royal Astronomical Society.  Tambaya: Rutherford ya yi sha'awar ilimin taurari kuma ya yi gwaji da menene?
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