astronomy

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"It'll be exciting, you know, in a slightly scary way, when they go behind the moon," Derek Buzasi, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

While religion provides answers, astronomy offers another way to search for them, grounding me like a kind of cosmic anchor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"We are used to thinking of astronomy as a snapshot in time," Rathore said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

Cleaver said she was always interested in astronomy while a pupil at Chelmsford County High School and later studied physics at Durham University.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

The real revolution in astronomy came with Tycho Brahe’s nova, with the abandonment of belief in the crystalline spheres, and with the invention of the telescope.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton