astronomer
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"We were stunned to see how asymmetric this disk is," said co-investigator Joshua Bennett Lovell, also an astronomer at the CfA.
From Science Daily ● May 12, 2026
“It’s a big sky and you have to spend time being open to what’s going to show up,” says James Davenport, an astronomer at the University of Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Roman, which took more than $4 billion and over a decade to build, is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, nicknamed the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in developing the landmark space telescope.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
She later earned a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard and in 1927, she became the youngest astronomer ever to have a star of distinction next to her name in the publication American Men of Science.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn’t have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
The Warwick team, working with astronomers from the University of Colorado Boulder in the US, was interested in the four nearby systems because of a "substantial radial wobble".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Radio telescopes are constantly flooded with signals produced on Earth, so astronomers rely on sophisticated software to identify and remove interference before searching for anything unusual.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
While none have been confirmed as alien megastructures, Amiri's work provides astronomers with another set of observational clues that could help distinguish genuine technosignatures from natural cosmic phenomena.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
He also leads development of PypeIt, the software astronomers across the University of California use to process observations collected by the Keck telescopes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
But presently our journey takes us to what astronomers on Earth like to call the Local Group of galaxies.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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