People who look to the stars

Usage examples of astronomers.

The old Astronomers sit for a while in what might be an Embrace, but that they forbear to touch.

Half the great astronomers living in the world today started with this as boys.

Using her committee expense account, Penny rented a sports car, and in it they explored the glorious countryside: Salisbury, Winchester, Plymouth, the Hardy country, the prim majesty of Bath, and the spot that moved John most deeply, that circle of massive monoliths at Stonehenge, for when he saw this mysterious relic of four thousand years he imagined himself one of the ancient astronomers who oriented it, and he insisted that they wait there among the rolling hills until the evening stars appeared, so that he could check the accuracy with which the great stones were aligned.

Spots had been meticulously counted since the year 1843, when astronomers first became aware that they varied within an eleven-year cycle, and these cycles had been numbered, so that Apollo 18 would lift off during the fading years of Cycle 20.

Baghdad, where Arabic astronomers are looking at the sky, as they always did.

Taurus, and we know the exact date because Arabic astronomers in many countries saw it and made notes which confirmed the sightings in China.

The jet housed a sixty-inch telescope and associated equipment, a team of six astronomers, and a three-person flying crew.

The astronomers needed headphones and microphones to talk with one another.

Visitors would leave first, followed by all those deemed nonessential: astronomers, mathematicians, chemists, hydroponics experts, entrepreneurs, recreation directors, general maintenance workers, and everyone else not needed to launch spacecraft or keep the power on.

It would, astronomers noted, move rapidly up the sky over the next few nights.

To know that, because the astronomers had been here, this civilization would live.

Kitt Peak where the astronomers have been watching developments closely.

For a year the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise.

Tombaugh was largely forgotten, except among planetary astronomers, who tend to revere him.

At a stroke, in a simple formula, Einstein endowed geologists and astronomers with the luxury of billions of years.