stargazer(LOOKING AT STARS)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Astronomy
albedo
Andromeda
Aquarius
Aries
asteroid
galaxy
Gemini
geostationary
geosynchronous
gibbous
observatory
orbit
orbital
Orion
penumbra
substellar
sunspot
supergiant
supermassive
supermoon

Examples from literature

Astronomers call it mass transfer, and it happens when one star pulls away the mass of the second star. 
Astronomers, the scientists who study space and planets, decided that Pluto was too small and too far away from our sun to be called a planet. 
Davidson, an astronomer, wanted to see an eclipse. 
Herschel, a British astronomer born in Germany in 1738, spent hours in his workshop, building mirrors for his telescope. 
In 1783, English writer and astronomer, John Michell, guessed that there were black holes. 
In 1960, a young radio astronomer named Frank Drake started the first search for signals from other solar systems. 
Recently, astronomers watched a star falling into a black hole. 
The astronomer used a telescope to see the planet. 
The planet moves extremely fast, orbiting its star every two hours, and astronomers believe that it used to be part of a double star. 
This black hole is about three billion light-years away from the Earth, so the astronomers were watching something which happened a long time ago. 

astronomer | American Dictionary

astronomer
noun[ C ]
us/əˈstrɑn·ə·mər/
a person who studies astronomy or whose job is connected with astronomy

Examples of astronomer

astronomer
Shortly before the bits of matter begin to coalesce, they are observed by alien astronomers.
He adopted the customary protocols of long-term observational astronomy, but did not treat other astronomers as colleagues.
To compound the problem, most instructors in such courses are (naturally) astronomers, whose grounding in astrobiologically-related fields such as chemistry and biology may be minimal.
It included few professional astronomers but many physicians, men of letters, diplomats, students, polymaths, and variously educated gentlemen.
A telescope is, after all, a mere instrument in the hands of an astronomer, who would be automatically gendered as masculine.
These molecules pose potential difficulties for both laboratory spectroscopists and radio astronomers.
They then decide what classes of stars they think astronomers should focus on in the search for planets that might have life.
It is difficult to imagine that astronomers were ever at serious risk for these alternative scenarios.
To say this is not to force the astronomer back into the challenge model.
He did take some short-term risk by relinquishing the credit he could have received from other mathematicians and astronomers through early widespread replications.
It seems that the major factor was the realization by astronomers that conducting matter and magnetic fields are commonplace in the universe.
One sign that the astronomer has learned his astrology is his indecision over borderline cases.
There is quite a range: physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, dendrologists, a few computer scientists.
Accordingly, at the time, astronomers showed little interest in general relativity.
The bright areas were regarded as dusty deserts by almost all astronomers.
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