astronomer

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

The length of the totality on land will make next year's eclipse remarkable, says Dr Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

A radio astronomer on a planet of another star would be able to calculate the length of the day on Earth from the times of appearance and disappearance of our signals.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In images from 2024, Sánchez-Lavega and amateur astronomers Trevor Barry and Jean-Paul Oger noticed a faint, wavy band near Saturn's south pole.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

That rapid response helps astronomers gather follow-up observations before fleeting events fade away.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Lead author Dr. Phil Wiseman, from the University of Southampton, said the latest analysis supports the measurements that astronomers have relied on for years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Roman's coronagraph will instead help astronomers search for planets by blocking the glare from their stars.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Throughout Europe astronomers took a keen interest in what Copernicus had to say, but, with only a very few exceptions, they took it for granted that his account of a moving Earth was simply wrong.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton