How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun
  • But astronomers are a clever bunch.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
  • But that’s for the astronomers to work out.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But what if the next great astronomer isn't even human?
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But in her own work as an astronomer, the big-tent approach has paid off.
    — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • So far, though, astronomers haven't had much luck finding any such line.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The range of notes astronomers can play will shrink, along with our views of the universe.
    — Martin Elvis, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
  • More than one astronomer told me that the chances are nearly zero.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The astronomer knows this is not the message a lot of people want to hear.
    — oregonlive, 21 June 2021
  • Still, York and other astronomers yearned for more.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Yet knowing for sure that astronomers have seen a direct wave is tricky.
    — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
  • Then, astronomers around the world moved quickly to confirm it.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
  • To astronomers, these appear as changes in the star's brightness.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2020
  • For astronomers, such systems are like cosmic crime scenes.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like.
    — Luke Keller, Space.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like.
    — ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Carl Sagan, the famed astronomer, is, sadly, no longer around to give his take.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Even so, astronomers don’t know if there would have been enough gas around to produce the biggest black holes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Wake up, astronomers—the universe is calling.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2026
  • First, astronomers need to recover it in more up-to-date imagery.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 May 2025
  • The object emits no light, meaning the astronomers had to use a clever workaround to find it.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That kind of depth of view is the only way astronomers can get a true picture of the cosmic web.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 15 May 2026
  • These are ultra-dark places where the night sky has been preserved for astronomers and stargazers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The color, astronomers say, is akin to a dark, cherry-blossom hue.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
  • Yet astronomers had never seen this iron structure before.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2026
  • To an astronomer looking through a telescope here on Earth, all of these stars are just points of light.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
  • The new measurements mean that astronomers have now ruled out a collision with the moon.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The telescope has even alerted astronomers to black holes in the act of swallowing stars.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
    — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023

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