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"When a satellite crosses what we observe, it makes a bright streak on our image, zapping whatever is behind it," said ESO astronomer Olivier Hainaut, who led the study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The idea was first proposed as a millennium project by local resident David Thomas, a retired teacher and amateur astronomer who wanted to create something that would inspire learning.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Researchers say the famous comet known as Halley's Comet may have been identified as a repeating object centuries before British astronomer Edmond Halley gave it his name.

From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026

In the 1890s, long-simmering dreams of an inhabited Mars found a foothold in the U.S., fanned by wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell, who built an Arizona observatory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

On a modern school protractor you cannot distinguish ten minutes of a degree, and only one astronomer before Kepler would have thought such a measurement unsatisfactory.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Even when Swift J1727 had dimmed to roughly one hundredth of its peak activity, astronomers still detected dense gas being blown away from the system.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

But another important role of Jodrell Bank Observatory is training UK astronomers in the science of radio astronomy.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The cut comes at a time when other countries are investing in their own national observatories to prepare for, what many astronomers believe will be, the dawn of a golden age in radio astronomy.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Even in such small amounts, these elements are highly valuable to astronomers because they preserve clues about the history and chemical development of the cosmos.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

First cartographers, then mathematicians, then anatomists, and then astronomers began to play the game, which was inherently competitive and immediately gave rise to priority disputes and, more slowly, to eponymic naming.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton