How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun

• The astronomer knows this is not the message a lot of people want to hear.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• With luck, astronomers say this just might be one of those years.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
• Many of the astronomers who observed it then are not alive now.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
• Smith was the second astronomer hired on the project by John Mather in 1996.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• In 2017, astronomer Keri Hoadley joined Martin’s team and took up the case.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 18 Nov. 2020
• Carl Sagan, the famed astronomer, is, sadly, no longer around to give his take.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
• But in her own work as an astronomer, the big-tent approach has paid off.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• More than one astronomer told me that the chances are nearly zero.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2021
• Now, one astronomer by the name of Avi Loeb seems to think that this meteorite could have been alien tech.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Sep. 2022
• Carl Sagan, the astronomer and TV host, chaired the committee that decided what to put on the record.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2021
• In years past, many astronomers thought of the solar wind as a steady flow, streaming away from the sun at a constant rate.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• So why not celebrate the Mayan astronomers who found Venus?
  — Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Messier was a French astronomer who is credited with the discovery of the great comet of 1769.
  — Valerie Stimac, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
• This was the true origin of the magnitude scale, which astronomers still use today.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• As a girl, Dudik dreamed of becoming an astronomer one day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
• But over the past several years, a team of astronomers has begun to rewrite the ballet of stars.
  — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• But just think of it: an amateur astronomer watching the Moon cover the Sun from a place named Mars Hill?
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• Sara Seager, an astronomer from MIT, proposed the idea.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
• Jay Pasachoff, an astronomer at Williams College, has chased eclipses all over the world and wasn’t planning to miss this one.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2021
• But that makes sense: The farther an astronomer wants to peer from Earth, the fuzzier their creations become.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• That makes astronomers’ conclusion that the Milky Way has four arms, something of a surprise.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• For decades astronomers have wondered how the cosmos grew and took shape and what its ultimate fate will be.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Which is why astronomers are so excited about the James Webb Space Telescope.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2024
• The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor show, dates back to 687 BC by the Chinese, astronomers say.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
• That is not saying anything new, and printing it in Fortune is like telling an astronomer that there are a lot of stars.
  — Dan Catchpole, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
• Once an object is photographed, it gets run through a database to determine if it's already known to astronomers.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
• For decades, astronomers have prized Chile’s Atacama Desert as a premiere location for studying the universe.
  — Katherine Helen Laliotis, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025