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

According to Neil Sanders, astronomer at Go Stargazing and co-founder of UK Eclipse, the event on Wednesday is an unmissable occasion.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

NSO astronomer Dr David Kuridze, told BBC News: "These twisting motions are creating magnetic energy, which can build up to produce those large-scale explosions."

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

An astronomer looked through his new telescope into the stars one morning and then refused to ever look to the heavens again.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

For the best chance of seeing the eclipse, astronomers recommend finding a high location with an unobstructed view towards the south-western horizon.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

For decades, however, astronomers have faced observations that do not seem to fit neatly with what can be seen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

There are more than 200 billion galaxies in the universe, and their motions have long presented astronomers with a major puzzle.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Because it does not emit or reflect light, astronomers cannot see it directly.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

After doing their calculations with Babylonian notation, Greek astronomers usually converted the numbers back into clunky Greek-style numerals—without zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife