astronomy

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“This space shuttle is everything rolled into one that my husband loved: astronomy, innovation, exploration, science, math and especially children,” Oschin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

"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

The New Crescent Society is a British grassroots astronomy network founded in 2016, which seeks to unite British Muslims by following a sighting of the moon in the UK.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Although training to become a priest, the courses Kepler was required to attend in his first two years at Tübingen included mathematics, physics and astronomy, in all of which he was an outstanding pupil.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin