astronomer

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"This is certainly the first time I've ever seen a point of light appear out of nowhere in an exoplanetary system," said lead author Paul Kalas, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Science Daily

Its strange characteristics make it difficult to classify, sitting somewhere between what astronomers typically consider a planet and a star.

From Science Daily

Until recently, astronomers mostly had to piece together the earliest stages indirectly because the expanding debris looked like a single pinpoint of light.

From Science Daily

To understand what happened, astronomers compared the observations with computer simulations and proposed two scenarios.

From Science Daily

An analysis by a South Korean team has hinted that, rather than the Universe continuing to expand, galaxies could be pulled back together by gravity, ending in what astronomers call a "Big Crunch".

From BBC