astrophysicist
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Among them was astronomer and astrophysicist Ernst Öpik.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
It’s named for Nikolai Kardashev, the Soviet-era astrophysicist who proposed, in 1964, that the use of energy is the essential feature of civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Lead author and astrophysicist Kishalay De told AFP the project began as something quite different, a study of stars under infrared light in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
"The planet orbits a star that's completely bizarre -- the mass of the Sun, but the size of a city," said University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Zhang, the study's principal investigator.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 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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