Crossword clues for astronomer
astronomer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Astronomer \As*tron"o*mer\, n. [See Astronomy.]
An astrologer. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena.
An undevout astronomer is mad.
--Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from astronomy (q.v.), replacing French import astronomyen (c.1300), which, had it survived, probably would have yielded *astronomian. Still in Shakespeare used in places where we would write astrologer.
Wiktionary
n. One who studies astronomy, the stars or the physical universe; a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics
WordNet
n. a physicist who studies astronomy [syn: uranologist, stargazer]
Wikipedia
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who concentrates their studies on a specific question or field outside of the scope of Earth. They look at stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies, as well as many other celestial objects — either in observational astronomy, in analyzing the data or in theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics or fields astronomers work on include: planetary science, solar astronomy, the origin or evolution of stars, or the formation of galaxies. There are also related but distinct subjects like cosmology which studies the Universe as a whole.
Astronomers usually fit into two types:
Observational astronomers make direct observations of planets, stars and galaxies, and analyse the data.
Theoretical astronomers create and investigate models of things that cannot be observed. Because it takes millions to billions of years for a system of stars or a galaxy to complete a life cycle astronomers have to observe snap shots of different systems at unique points in their evolution to determine how they form, evolve and die. They use this data to create models or simulations to theorize how different celestial bodies work.
There are further subcategories inside these two main branches of astronomy such as planetary astronomy, galactic astronomy or cosmology.
The Astronomer (Seginn Gallio) is a fictional character, an ancient alien appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. He is one of the Elders of the Universe. His first appearance was in Silver Surfer (Vol.3) #4.
Usage examples of "astronomer".
Let us therefore not attempt to dislodge the Greek astronomer from his pedestal as the discoverer of precession unless we can find a significantly more accurate value recorded in a significantly more ancient source.
She was a fine operations astronomer, skilled at sampling the steady stream of data that flowed through the High Energy Astrophysics Center, though a bit too earnest for his taste.
Sitting near him in the cafeteria was a Pipe-Rilla astronomer, about to leave Barchan en route to the Eta Cass ring system.
Nathan Twining of the AAF and then USAF Air Material Command Professor Donald Menzel, Harvard astronomer and Naval Intelligence cryptography expert Vannevar Bush, Joint Research and Development Board Chairman Detlev Bronk, Chairman of the National Research Council and biologist who would ultimately be named to the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
The Astronomer Royal had chosen his offices here, rather than in his college, out of a desire to escape the busyness of the central town.
Tach than an astronomers, so he recognized here a centrifuge, there a microtome, and so on.
There are often vouchsafed to us here hours of outsoaring emotion and conception which make the enclosures in which the astronomer loiters seem narrow.
But, as astronomers had been learning for centuries, the rules of planetography were made to be broken.
Whereas against all this, which had been confirmed and reconfirmed in the scriptures, poetry, feelings, and visions of all ages, what Copernicus proposed was a universe no eye could see but only the mind imagine: a mathematical, totally invisible construction, of interest only to astronomers, unbeheld, unfelt by any others of this human race, whose sight and feelings were locked still to earth.
West Coast astronomers complained about the difficulties in traveling to the third conference of astronomers and astrophysicists at Yerkes and seem to have voiced some pleasure that promised demonstrations with the Yerkes 40-inch refractor for this ceremony had to be postponed because of cloudy weather.
The third, launched in August 2003, is the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, now known as the Spitzer Space Telescope in honor of the great Princeton astronomer Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Astronomers can spectroscopically identify a vast supergiant star which moves alternately nearer to and farther from Earth every few days.
I learned that two astronomers at the University of Cambridge, Ian Redmount and Martin Rees, now predict beamlike gravitational radiation might be emitted from certain superheavy objects out there.
The single finest tellurium in existence was built by the New England machinist, astronomer, and misanthrope, Benjamin Dee, in 1816.
Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.