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astrophysicist

[as-troh-fiz-uh-sist] / ˌæs troʊˈfɪz ə sɪst /
NOUN
astronomer
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Snyder drove to the nearby home of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who went outside to his front porch to see what was going on, according to a Los Angeles County district attorney’s office news release.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Among them was astronomer and astrophysicist Ernst Öpik.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

"Only through the combined power of instruments on multiple spacecraft could we understand this event," said Eric Burns, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

Its first title, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter,” is expected to be published in May.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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