astronomy
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“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
"It'll be exciting, you know, in a slightly scary way, when they go behind the moon," Derek Buzasi, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
The number of students earning undergraduate astronomy degrees in the U.S. is at an all-time high, quadruple what it was two decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The New Crescent Society is a British grassroots astronomy network founded in 2016, which seeks to unite British Muslims by following a sighting of the moon in the UK.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
There had been stable, consensus-based sciences before: Ptolemaic astronomy, for example, or Vesalian anatomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing astronomy
Eclipse Vocabulary
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From Ascension to Zenith: Astronomy and Stargazing Terms
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Oh, My Stars! A Solstice Sampler
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