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astronomy

[uh-stron-uh-mee] / əˈstrɒn ə mi /


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Whatever the discipline—medicine, law, astronomy, theology—knowledge had to be sought.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

"A year in orbit pushes both hardware and humans into a different operational regime compared with the shorter Shenzhou missions of the programme's earlier phases," the professor of physics and astronomy told AFP.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

ZTF data are processed and archived by IPAC, an astronomy center at Caltech.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

“This space shuttle is everything rolled into one that my husband loved: astronomy, innovation, exploration, science, math and especially children,” Oschin said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Galileo now rushed to publish his discoveries, which transformed astronomy in the space of a few months—the time it took for others to acquire telescopes with which they could corroborate his findings.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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