astronomer
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The newly confirmed site was first noticed by an amateur astronomer who was planning a camping trip in Quebec.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
No competent astronomer defended the traditional Ptolemaic system once they had heard that Venus had a full set of phases; you had to be an ill-informed philosopher to do so.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Finding additional examples could help astronomers determine how common this process is, how long it can persist, and what ultimately happens to objects trapped in such extraordinarily close relationships.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
When one astronomical object draws gas or other material from another, astronomers call the process accretion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
A group of amateur astronomers have been given permission to set up a mini-observatory at a village hall.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
That added detail could help astronomers make more accurate predictions for observations being collected now and for those planned in the future.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
For a year the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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