astronomer
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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
While Amazon has 392 satellites in space, according to data from astronomer Jonathan McDowell, only 315 are in the proper operational orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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
“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
The latter came from historian Mann and her Toledo colleague, astronomer Jerry Fields.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
These subtle effects are difficult to identify individually, so astronomers rely on statistical methods to detect them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Finding additional examples could help astronomers determine how common this process is, how long it can persist, and what ultimately happens to objects trapped in such extraordinarily close relationships.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Those changes in visibility produce the distinctive pattern of brightening and dimming that the astronomers had struggled to understand.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
By revealing activity that traditional gamma-ray observations can miss, Einstein Probe may give astronomers a new way to study both the immediate aftermath of neutron star mergers and their connection to gravitational-wave events.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was only printing that ensured that a significant number of astronomers had access to Regiomontanus’s text on parallax after 1531.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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