astronomer

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"Enthusiastic astronomer" Nazish was out moon spotting with her three nieces and nephews and said she wanted to pass on the skill.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The calculation was created in the 1800s by a Belgian astronomer, and then a doctor in the U.S. renamed it the body mass index in the 1970s.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

The author documents Tennyson’s reaction to books by the geologist Charles Lyell, the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and the astronomer John Herschel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The astronomer also said the star identified was slightly smaller than one scientists would "nominally expect to turn into a black hole."

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

The entire family wept as befit the occasion, except for Clara, who continued to watch the sky with the patience of an astronomer.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende