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While Amazon has 392 satellites in space, according to data from astronomer Jonathan McDowell, only 315 are in the proper operational orbit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Among the higher-profile entries are “Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes,” a portrait of the Who guitarist and songwriter, and Nanette Burstein’s “Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff,” about the astronomer and science communicator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

“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

It made him appreciate the delicacy of life on our planet in the way astronomer Carl Sagan once did when speaking of the Pale Blue Dot photograph.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The announcer adds that the station will soon carry an interview with the well-known astronomer Professor Richard Pierson.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

By studying the molecules in this coma, astronomers could identify the chemical makeup of material carried by the comet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

ALMA's high resolution for imaging also allowed astronomers to track how different molecules are released and travel away from the comet.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

For more than 25 years, astronomers have relied on these exploding stars to track how the universe has expanded over time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

That connection supports the idea that more distant remnant radio galaxies may fade faster, reducing the amount of time during which astronomers can detect them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

More than a hundred years later Galileo still needed, when writing in Latin, to use convoluted phrases such as ‘unknown to all astronomers before me’ to convey it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton