How to Use astrophysics in a Sentence

astrophysics

noun
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  • Making the film was kind of a crash course in astrophysics for Sturgulewski.
    — Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Until then, Davies and others like him are here to guide us through this current morass of astrophysics.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Dark matter is one of the current great unknowns of modern astrophysics.
    — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
  • In any case, this is a watershed moment in astrophysics.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Tuesday’s award extends a recent streak of prizes for astrophysics.
    — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
  • But a new technique that leverages astrophysics in the aid of archeology has lent the process a far greater degree of precision.
    — Dan Falk, Wired, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Jupiter Ding, while a freshman at Princeton, wrote to the department of astrophysics, hoping to get involved in research.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Helen Qu is an astrophysics grad student who loves cooking, baking, and trying new recipes in her free time.
    — Helen Qu, Bon Appétit, 30 July 2020
  • Students of physics and the broader sciences will be deeply fascinated by this riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics.
    — Daniel Stone, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The new study of astrophysics diverted resources from the survey, but work continued.
    — H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This year, there are 21 fellows from fields as varied as astrophysics and choreography, and each will receive the same amount of money, which will be disbursed over five years.
    — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • But astrophysics is a little bit different than physics.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • No one knew for sure what could create such short explosions of radio waves, making fast radio bursts one of the most intriguing puzzles in astrophysics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2020
  • But the fundamental nature of the Gaia mission—an all-sky survey of stars—underpins all of astrophysics.
    — Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 22 June 2022
  • The Kavli Prize honors scientists for breakthroughs in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience—transforming our understanding of the big, the small and the complex.
    — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 17 June 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
  • But this is not Astronomy 101, and while Chapman manages to effectively convey the gist of most of this most complicated of space sciences, the astrophysics-ness of it all puts up a strong fight.
    — Cory Oldweiler, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • For Ghez, the new picture of Sagittarius A* is an important contribution to astrophysics.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022
  • It is used in archaeology, to date human artifacts; in geology, to date stones and strata; and in astrophysics, to date distant stars and gas clouds.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Oh, in about 36 other places, according to calculations by an astrophysics team.
    — Pete McBride, National Geographic, 17 June 2020
  • Jacob Bean, professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, has waited more than a decade for the Webb telescope’s launch.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The Kavli Prize has been honoring scientists for their seminal research in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience since 2008.
    — Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • Mark spends much of the concept album stargazing in this way, her lyrics frequently drawing from celestial imagery, astrophysics, and science fiction in service of making sense of her world.
    — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for pioneering advances in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.
    — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Andrew Allan, a doctoral student in astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin, checked and rechecked the data.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 1 July 2020
  • Exactly what is preventing nearby galaxies from birthing new stars has been a long-standing mystery in astrophysics.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • An independent review of the state of astronomy and astrophysics in the U.S. has recommended federal funding of a giant telescope in the state.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Ewine van Dishoeck is a professor of molecular astrophysics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
    — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2021
  • As one of the the most active topics in astrophysics, FRBs have lately seen a slew of groundbreaking and sometimes at-odds findings, with papers that reshape the field regularly appearing in the literature.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Bahcall, a giant in astrophysics, was widely known for his solution to the problem of solar neutrinos and his calculations of the distribution of stars around a massive black hole.
    — Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 15 July 2022

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