Synonym: stargazer, uranologist. Similar words: strong, economy, economic, autonomy, economics, economist, patron, economically. Meaning: [ə'strɒnəmə] 
n. a physicist who studies astronomy.
n. a physicist who studies astronomy. 
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1 A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.
2 An astronomer can determine the brightness of each star.
3 It was the Greek astronomer, Ptolemy,(www.Sentencedict.com) who postulated that the Earth was at the centre of the universe.
4 Then Bradley, the astronomer royal, died in July.
5 The Astronomer, writing some twenty years later, noted its occurrence in 823.
6 The first astronomer to study the surface of Mars was Galileo Galilei, who noted the phases of the planet in 1610.
7 As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller!
8 A super lens was being developed by Harvard astronomer Jim Baker.
9 A capable mathematician and astronomer, he compiled detailed planetary tables for astrological use.
10 In one such list the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Scheiner is included for his discovery of the sunspots.
11 He was an administrator, not an astronomer, and that question had always floored him.
12 The inauguration of the new astronomer royal presaged a drastic reversal of fortune for John Harrison, whom Halley had always admired.
13 The astronomer royal declared himself more than willing to undertake responsibility for the work.
14 Men give ear to an upstart astronomer who tries to show that the Earth revolves, not the Sun and the Moon.
15 Indeed, Icarus had been discovered by astronomer Walter Baade during an equally close approach in 1949.
16 The astronomer who originates the request gives the observatories at least two or three times when we can do the work.
17 No astronomer was needed to tell the populace what operations to perform once the waters had receded.
18 Sciorra plays a Colorado astronomer who discovers that an approaching comet has dislodged several asteroids, propelling them toward Earth.
19 During his own tenure as astronomer royal, from 1720 to 1742, Halley studiously tracked the moon.
20 Pliny also asserted that the mathematician and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had predicted the Aegospotami meteorite fall.
21 Charles too had a voice: the Astronomer credits him as well as Judith with the idea of a new rapprochement with Lothar.
22 A prominet Soviet astronomer puts it well.
23 The first important Greeks astronomer was Pythagoras.
24 1742- English astronomer Edmond Halley died at age 85.
25 He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.
26 The undevout astronomer must be mad.
27 The astronomer Fred Hoyle said they came from Space.
28 1642- astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Italy.
29 In 1787, astronomer William Herschel discovered the Eskimo Nebula.
30 Beside it our hero would be making notes - a gentleman astronomer like that gentleman chemist, Sherlock Holmes.
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