How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun
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  • Many of the astronomers who observed it then are not alive now.
    — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
  • Smith was the second astronomer hired on the project by John Mather in 1996.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Now, one astronomer by the name of Avi Loeb seems to think that this meteorite could have been alien tech.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Carl Sagan, the astronomer and TV host, chaired the committee that decided what to put on the record.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2021
  • In years past, many astronomers thought of the solar wind as a steady flow, streaming away from the sun at a constant rate.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
  • So why not celebrate the Mayan astronomers who found Venus?
    — Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
    — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This was the true origin of the magnitude scale, which astronomers still use today.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
  • But over the past several years, a team of astronomers has begun to rewrite the ballet of stars.
    — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But just think of it: an amateur astronomer watching the Moon cover the Sun from a place named Mars Hill?
    — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Sara Seager, an astronomer from MIT, proposed the idea.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But that makes sense: The farther an astronomer wants to peer from Earth, the fuzzier their creations become.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
  • That makes astronomers’ conclusion that the Milky Way has four arms, something of a surprise.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • For decades astronomers have wondered how the cosmos grew and took shape and what its ultimate fate will be.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • Which is why astronomers are so excited about the James Webb Space Telescope.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor show, dates back to 687 BC by the Chinese, astronomers say.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
  • That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In no other field do men confront mystery and challenge like that which looms down upon the astronomer in the long watches of the night.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Comet Nishimura was first spotted in Japan by a novice astronomer in mid-August, which is why the comet was named after him.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Join astronomer Dean Regas to view the closest full moon of the year, weather permitting.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Physicist, author and Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb, thinks Oumuamua could be a piece of alien tech rather than a space rock.
    — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first person to predict that a transit of Venus would occur.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • That could enable astronomers to start using FRBs as a mapping tool.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Since then, astronomers have identified more events like this.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But what astronomers still don’t understand is why things have been calm ever since.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • While astronomers know of 40 to 50 in-sync solar systems, none have as many planets in such perfect step or as bright a star as this one, Palle said.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Jupiter's four Galilean moons were discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • For almost a decade now, a dedicated team of Lithuanian astronomers has been trying to answer this conundrum using a state-of-the-art spectrograph at a telescope some 70 km outside Vilnius.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

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