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astrophysicist

[as-troh-fiz-uh-sist] / ˌæs troʊˈfɪz ə sɪst /
NOUN
astronomer
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"I have Sir Isaac Newton's personal assurance that it did indeed hit the moon, there's no way for it to have escaped," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and space analyst, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Dr George Dransfield, an astrophysicist and Sky at Night presenter, said the decision could see the UK "lose our place in these big international scientific collaborations".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Back in 2010, UC Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen proposed that the answer was a newborn magnetar.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

Snyder drove to the nearby home of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who went outside to his front porch to see what was going on, according to a Los Angeles County district attorney’s office news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

The term supernova was coined in the 1930s by a memorably odd astrophysicist named Fritz Zwicky.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The “NOVA” presentation, bookended by takeoff and splashdown footage, isn’t for astrophysicists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

Researchers believe data from the higher-resolution telescope, which has the capacity to measure high-energy signals, will help astrophysicists break the paradox.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

With his passing on Tuesday, India lost one of its most celebrated astrophysicists.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

It took a long time before astrophysicists came to agree that our universe was finite—that it did, in fact, have a beginning.

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


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