Examples of astronomer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Stephan’s Quintet, named for the 19th-century French astronomer who discovered them, is a cluster of galaxies about 290 million light-years away. — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 8 July 2022 For example: Margaret Landis, 30, is an astrophysicist who collects texts related to the cometary discoveries of Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the United States. — New York Times, 7 May 2022 Lots of big numbers, nearly of the magnitude astronomer Carl Sagan used to ponder. — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2022 Remarkably this asteroid was discovered by the same astronomer that found 2022 EB5 a few weeks ago just hours before its impact. — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022 The first star map can be traced back to the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus around 129 BC. — Lucie Green, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021 Franck Marchis, senior planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute, said the asteroid is traveling at roughly 30,000 mph – 17 times the speed of a bullet. — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 23 May 2022 One team, led by astronomer Kailash Sahu, a Hubble instrument scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, determined that the black hole weighed seven times the mass of our sun. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2022 It’s the equivalent to a person eating a single grain of rice over millions of years, another astronomer said. — Seth Borenstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2022 See More

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