There's a difference between a telescope builder and an astronomer, of course.
Last year, a Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, speculated that if aliens exist, they might have souls and he offered to reach out, touch and baptize them.
"Either way, it would be unpleasant if you were there," said Greg Laughlin, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.
Houston likes to bring up one story from an astronomer.
He possessed in exceptional degree almost every kind of: inteilectual aptitude—lawyer, historian, theologian, not less than mathematician, physicist, astronomer.
The new study "is a nice piece of work," says Mauricio Cisternas, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
But one astronomer has just done precisely that.
February of 2010 marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
The discovery of the expansion of our Universe was already noticed by astronomer Hubble a long time ago in 1929, forcing Einstein to revise his famous equations about space, time and masses.
"I knew that was the famous time," says the Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer.
My ideal is to be an astronomer.
Banking has a long history of borrowing ideas from science - astronomer Edmund Halley was constructing mortality tables for the life assurance industry back in the 17th Century.
Although his work was instrumental in bringing the Copernican system into prominence, Galileo was far more than just an astronomer.
Indeed the church would imprison Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, for advocating the sun-centred model of the universe a century later.
If people know you're an astronomer, they will soon be asking you all about it.
A most unusual astronomer inasmuch as he was deaf mute.
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