astronomer
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The hotel hosts special trips during the festival, led by a local astronomer, and runs visits to various sites and events across the park.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
An amateur astronomer searching satellite maps for possible camping locations in Quebec ended up spotting something far more unusual: evidence of a previously unrecognized impact crater.
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
Then, for the fourth time since the broadcast began, the news announcer interrupts with a special bulletin: An astronomer at McGill University in Canada has just seen three more explosions on Mars.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Equipped with an enormous 39-meter mirror and advanced scientific instruments, the telescope will give astronomers the ability to detect smaller exomoons that are currently beyond the reach of existing observatories.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Without that detailed spatial information, astronomers likely would have identified only one of the galaxy's three active black holes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
In particular, the findings demonstrate the importance of integral field spectroscopy, which allows astronomers to examine how light and its spectral signatures vary across different parts of a galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
This means astronomers are observing it as it existed just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
After doing their calculations with Babylonian notation, Greek astronomers usually converted the numbers back into clunky Greek-style numerals—without zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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