astronomer

Ahead of the screening of a documentary about his experience, Preston astronomer Dermot Gethings recalled how, at 16 years old, he was hand picked by the United States embassy and Nasa to witness the launch.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

For comparison, it’s estimated that SpaceX has roughly 11,100 working Starlink satellites, according to data from the astronomer Jonathan McDowell.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 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

He was the son of well-known astronomer William Herschel, who earlier had proposed that Mars could support intelligent life.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

This means astronomers are observing it as it existed just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

However, astronomers have not established a universally accepted definition of an exomoon.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The new results build on decades of work by hundreds of astronomers and researchers worldwide.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

And while the report said the unnamed person making the report was “fairly reliable” due to his association with “military jet aircraft activities,” local astronomers said that Jupiter could possibly explain the sighting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

This explained the motion of the planets in the heavens with incredible accuracy; no longer could astronomers object that the heliocentric system was inferior to the geocentric one.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife