astrophysicist
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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
SpaceX’s Starlink currently maintains around 10,100 operational satellites in orbit, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracks space activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
In 2024, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Kansas proposed a solution that explained much of this unusual "zebra" pattern.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2026
The famous Miura fold, developed by Japanese astrophysicist Kōryō Miura, folds a sheet of material into parallelograms, allowing it to fold down very compactly.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
“She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
The “NOVA” presentation, bookended by takeoff and splashdown footage, isn’t for astrophysicists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
New work from astrophysicists at Michigan State University may help resolve a scientific question that has lingered for more than a century: where do galactic cosmic rays come from?
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2025
He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
With his passing on Tuesday, India lost one of its most celebrated astrophysicists.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
Particle physicists have tended to favor the particle explanation of WIMPs, astrophysicists the stellar explanation of MACHOs.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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