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• n  a physicist who studies astronomy

• During the past 100 years, astronomers have discovered quasars, pulsars, black holes and planets orbiting distant suns.
• With almost unseemly haste, astronomers and astrophysicists conjured up possible explanations for the new signals from space and rushed them to publications like Nature and Science .
• Then, when British astronomers intercepted Luna 9's pictures and released them first, a Soviet scientist lamely charged them with "certain motives of a sensational nature.

• uranologist
• stargazer

News & Articles

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• What’s Going On Inside This New Kind of Variable Star?
  A new kind of variable star — 36 of that type, in fact — has been found in a single star cluster. Astronomers don’t even have a name for the star type yet, but feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments! For now, however, astronomers are wondering what the implications are for our [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Universe Today
• Scientists Cast Doubt on the Closest Exoplanet
  A new analysis of what a team of astronomers said was evidence of an Earth-mass planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B raises existential questions.
  June 10, 2013 - New York Times
• Astronomer pegs July 9 as start of Ramadan
  MANAMA, Kuwait, June 9 (UPI) -- Astronomers in Kuwait said this year's Ramadan holiday will begin July 9, when the first crescent moon of the month becomes visible.
  June 9, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Kirsten Dunst in China Daily
  Dunst, 24, says, "I drink moderately, I've tried drugs. I do like weed. I have a different outlook on marijuana than America does. My best friend Sasha's dad was Carl Sagan, the astronomer. He was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a...
• John Grunsfeld in Reuters
  As both an astronaut and an astronomer, the opportunity to go back to Hubble is more than a dream come true,said John Grunsfeld, who will be the mission's lead spacewalker. "This mission promises to be quite challenging. NASA has put...
• Judd Hirsch in Chicago Tribune
  I wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid,Hirsch says. "I used to have scrapbooks of the planets. If I was about to go to college [then], and knew about the space program, I'm telling you, I would have been in it. I would have at least...