The phrase "astonishing observation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a surprising or remarkable finding or insight that has been made.
Example: "The scientist made an astonishing observation during the experiment that could change our understanding of the phenomenon."
Alternatives: "remarkable finding" or "surprising insight".
That's a remarkable number, which he then goes on to undercut with the following astonishing observation: "You've done better: the value of the mineral content in the human body compounded at 22% annually during the past decade".
Chris Mason, professor of regenerative medicine bioprocessing at University College London, said that real scientific breakthroughs "are often the result of an astonishing observation that if robustly examined may occasionally contain a nugget of great value.
This astonishing observation has inspired a number of clinical interventions worldwide, among them the highly debated melodic intonation therapy (Albert et al., 1973; Helm-Estabrooks et al., 1989).
For example, in 1996, the incidence of childhood leukemia corresponded to 80 cases per million in Mexico City, and this value was an exceptional and astonishing observation that has not registered again [ 27].
An astonishing observation in this process is that in one follicle, the transition may occur already a few months after generation of the primordial follicle pool, while another follicle may stay several decades (for organisms with a sufficiently long lifespan) in the resting stage before growth is initiated.
These astonishing observations have ignited a race towards an even bigger discovery - what is Dark Energy?
Then Hubble at California's Mt. Palomar made public his astonishing observations of a cosmic Doppler shift, a shift toward the red in the color of light coming from the most distant star systems.
What lay beyond the horizon were the astonishing empirical observations and experimental proofs of the intuitions of ancient atomism.
The finding that CYP96B22 may act differently in barley powdery mildew vs. Magnaporthe interactions was not astonishing, since similar observations had been made before for barley MLO or ROP genes [ 10, 44].
Each crossing is an opportunity for precision measurement and a pause to contemplate the astonishing scale of successive human observation.
Leonardo was a professional engineer, and the Codex Hammer consists largely of descriptions and illustrations of his astonishing if not very glamorous observations of the properties of water.
