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
It was while watching an eclipse on May 29, 1919 on the West African island of Principe that British astronomer Arthur Eddington confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It's something really huge smashing into the Moon. It's not remotely dangerous, we can just watch the show," says Dr Matt Bothwell, public astronomer at the University of Cambridge.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The area of relatively flat countryside was chosen by pioneering astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell as the perfect place to build an observatory because of its quiet radio environment, far away from interference.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Do you know who compiled that table? Nevil Maskelyne! The royal astronomer of England! You’d be as apt to find a mistake in—well—in Newton’s Principia!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Studying such a large population could help astronomers determine how common different types of planetary systems are and whether some distant worlds resemble planets closer to home.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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
Because it does not emit or reflect light, astronomers cannot see it directly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
To reproduce the fading flares astronomers actually observe, the researchers needed what Bandopadhyay called "a new ingredient": a star that was already rotating rapidly before its first encounter with the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The more distant the objects that astronomers look at, the farther back they are looking in time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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