How to Use astronomy in a Sentence

astronomy

noun
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  • Lucia, who loved astronomy and outer space, was buried in an astronaut costume.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • Almost immediately, the piece ignited the kind of firestorm rarely, if ever, seen in the world of modern-day astronomy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
  • The results did not come easy, especially because China was a latecomer to the field of gamma-ray astronomy.
    — Ling Xin, Scientific American, 8 July 2021
  • Astronomers fear the clutter could hurt optical astronomy and the cultural relationship people have with dark skies.
    — Author: Samantha Masunaga, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
  • Nonetheless, he is regarded by some in the astronomy community as a knight-errant, tilting at windmills.
    — Seth Shostak, Scientific American, 29 July 2021
  • Weinberg was a professor at the university since 1982, teaching both physics and astronomy.
    — Ken Miller, ajc, 24 July 2021
  • This is the first taste of a promising new kind of astronomy.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Their best bet was to blend in with the male culture of astronomy.
    — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
  • In astronomy, tidal forces aren’t just what make the ocean come in and out every day.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • What should the field of astronomy do with someone like Avi Loeb?
    — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • This all may seem like a lark, a silly bit of fun at the expense of astronomy.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 June 2024
  • For Schwarzschild, the key to the universe lay in astronomy.
    — Ruth Frankli, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • In astronomy, the study of fast radio bursts can sometimes feel like a game of Clue.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • Half-months are used in astronomy to separate months in two sections: day one through the 15 day, and day 16 through the rest of the month.
    — Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • To learn more about space and astronomy events in 2023 and to upload them to your calendar app, go to nytimes.com/spacecalendar.
    — Danielle Dowling, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • So there's going to be a lot of astronomy and science, which is great for nerds like me who love that.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • As topics in astronomy go, FRBs are still young and bustling.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The survey serves as a once-a-decade roadmap guiding U.S. astronomy.
    — Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 25 May 2022
  • The site is a Bortle 2 and is frequently used by astronomy clubs.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • That’s how many years old the light captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is, a major advance in astronomy.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 12 July 2022
  • The seller uses astronomy software to replicate what the sky looked like at the time and day of the memorable moment.
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Now is the time to get active online or join your local astronomy club.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The research was done in the lab of Dr. Jimmy Irwin, professor of physics and astronomy.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The work on this neutron star merger builds on decades of astronomy research.
    — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The next visit by Halley’s Comet could be one of the most observed and studied events in the history of astronomy.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • At the end of the 19th century, the Paris observatory was one of the world's great centers of astronomy.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The comet will be close to Mars roughly a week later, according to astronomy charts.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Learn astronomy, tour the buildings and then look through the 178-year-old telescope at the stars (weather permitting).
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The Rubin Observatory will photograph the entire heavens every three days and will totally transform short-timescale astronomy, showing how stars evolve day to day.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • This October, the astronomy world will be abuzz with night-sky happenings, from a bright and potentially naked-eye-visible comet sighting and a ring-of-fire solar eclipse to multiple meteor showers and Earth’s temporary second moon.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024

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