astronomer
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“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
Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at The Royal Observatory Greenwich, says the specialist glasses are "very, very different" to regular sunglasses, which will not offer protection.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at Royal Greenwich Observatory, said: "We're not going to get one this good for a really long time."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
One night he heard an interview with an astronomer about what would have to be done to get the moon back in place.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
By reducing the overwhelming glare of a host star, astronomers can directly image nearby planets and disks that would otherwise be extremely difficult to see.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Both observatories can detect infrared light, giving astronomers the ability to compare and combine their observations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The studies indicated that Betelgeuse B would reach its greatest apparent separation from Betelgeuse in December 2024, giving astronomers their best opportunity to see it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
For the best chance of seeing the eclipse, astronomers recommend finding a high location with an unobstructed view towards the south-western horizon.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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