astronomic

The difficulty is that most European countries would struggle to find sums as astronomic as that.

But such an astronomic menu comes with a fittingly astronomic price tag — $495,000 per ticket.

While Sagittarius A* could be compared to a sleeping volcano, some SMBHs grow extremely rapidly by engulfing astronomic amounts of matter.

Data collected by the Gaia satellite are opening up a window into the near Universe, providing astronomic measurements -- such as position, distance from the Earth and movement -- on nearly two billion stars.

So every few years since 1972, the two times have been synced by the insertion of leap seconds — pausing the atomic clocks briefly to let the astronomic one catch up.