How to Use astronomy in a Sentence

astronomy

noun
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  • Nichols enjoyed decades in the spotlight thanks to her screen work, her music career and her activism to help more women succeed in the field of astronomy.
    — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2022
  • The actress enjoyed decades in the spotlight thanks to her screen work, her music career, and her activism to help more women succeed in the field of astronomy.
    — Mariah Haas, EW.com, 31 July 2022
  • Pinning down a star’s age with any substantial precision is a notoriously tricky problem in astronomy.
    — Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2022
  • In addition to his on-field talents, Nugent plans to major in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 26 July 2022
  • Others are working to address the astronomy community’s own carbon footprint.
    — Wired, 18 Aug. 2022
  • However, to see Saturn’s rings through a telescope is still perhaps the most impressive sight of all to anyone starting out in stargazing, planet-spotting and astronomy.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • The site is a Bortle 2 and is frequently used by astronomy clubs.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • 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 | Lroop@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The work on this neutron star merger builds on decades of astronomy research.
    — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Its star is about 1 million years old—a baby, in astronomy terms.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • For those of us who don't remember astronomy, that means the moon will pass between the sun and the earth, completely blocking it.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
  • What could be more fun than curling up on a blanket while gazing at the stars and learning fun facts about astronomy?
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps that’s why Nevada launched their first official astronomy route: Park to Park in the Dark.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In this critical moment for the future of astronomy, now all eyes are on Congress to see how the budget shakes out in the coming months and years.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This isn’t an issue just in astronomy and space exploration, of course.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 June 2024
  • The astronomy or physics teacher or professor in your life will love this collection of planets to add to their desk.
    — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • And a study published in April found that the total amount of air travel by researchers to astronomy conferences in 2019 was more than the distance between Earth and the sun.
    — Delger Erdenesanaa, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The drifting duration of the day wanders out of synch with the steady marching of the atomic second, and this risks opening a rift between the time as told by atoms and the time as told by astronomy.
    — Nate Hopper, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The students compete in hands-on and lab events covering topics in engineering, physics, epidemiology, astronomy, chemistry, robotics and coding.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 30 June 2024

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