astronomer

“When you have that level of anxiety over the clouds, it juices the experience,” Elliot Borgman, a 77-year-old retired astronomer from Lansdowne, Penn., told me over breakfast the morning after August’s eclipse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at The Royal Observatory Greenwich, says the specialist glasses are "very, very different" to regular sunglasses, which will not offer protection.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

It was while watching an eclipse on May 29, 1919 on the West African island of Principe that British astronomer Arthur Eddington confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Bothwell, the astronomer, also said the collision would provide a cautionary tale about the issue of ever-accumulating, human-made space clutter.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Although he did not state it this way, he was the first astronomer to imagine the planets hanging unsupported in empty space.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Despite decades of observations, astronomers had been unable to clearly detect such a star.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Now the likely discovery of Betelgeuse B introduces another factor astronomers must consider when studying the star's evolution.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Studying such a large population could help astronomers determine how common different types of planetary systems are and whether some distant worlds resemble planets closer to home.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

In short, there isn’t a great deal that goes on in the universe that astronomers can’t find when they have a mind to.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson