astronomer
noun/əˈstɹɒn.ə.mə/UK/əˈstɹɑ.nə.mɚ/CA/əˈstɹɔn.ə.mə/
Etymology
From Middle English astronomer, equivalent to astronomy + -er. Displaced native Old English tungolcræftiga.
- inherited from astronomer
Definitions
One who studies astronomy, the stars or the physical universe
One who studies astronomy, the stars or the physical universe; a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
- Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science. It’s fitting that the first national US observatory named for a female astronomer is in her honor.
- But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
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No curated loop yet for astronomer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA