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
The length of the totality on land will make next year's eclipse remarkable, says Dr Ed Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at The Royal Observatory Greenwich, says the specialist glasses are "very, very different" to regular sunglasses, which will not offer protection.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at Royal Greenwich Observatory, said: "We're not going to get one this good for a really long time."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It represents an intellectual breakthrough: Digges was the first competent astronomer explicitly to propose an infinite universe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
If that were true, astronomers could have been misreading the supernova data and incorrectly concluding that cosmic expansion was speeding up when it was actually slowing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The studies indicated that Betelgeuse B would reach its greatest apparent separation from Betelgeuse in December 2024, giving astronomers their best opportunity to see it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Future measurements of the CMB, together with larger surveys of galaxies, should allow astronomers and physicists to test gravity with even greater precision.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 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
These had already been seen by other astronomers, but Galileo was not aware of that.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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