Sentence examples for astronomer for from inspiring English sources

There is also the journal of the lead astronomer for the sub-station at Kailua, kept by Professor George Forbes.

All singers exercised superb diction, but the libretto relied on homonyms easier to see than hear: the astronomer, for example, mistaking "serious" for "Sirius".

He oversaw the recruitment and training of observers, the organisation of equipment and travel, and acted as chief astronomer for Station B, in Honolulu.

"Just as you shouldn't go to a paediatrist for brain surgery, you shouldn't go to an astronomer for expert advice on planetary science.

She was married for six months in 1961 to Dana K. Bailey, a radio astronomer for the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Sotheby's is auctioning a bronze tiger's head that it says was part of a water clock commissioned by the emperor and designed by a French astronomer for the grounds of the Old Summer Palace.

His farmhouse has been a well-known haunt for keen amateur astronomers for four years now.

Kant, the philosopher, was sharp with the 18th century astronomers for their indifference to it.

Hubble permitted close-up views of cosmic structures that had occupied astronomers for centuries.

"It's an object that has captivated the imagination and the attention of astronomers for millennia".

NASA has already asked astronomers for ideas on how to use the hobbled spacecraft, whose telescope is in perfect shape.