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a professional time traveler who studies the past because light takes forever to arrive.
means A scientist who studies celestial objects and phenomena — stars, planets, galaxies, and the universe as a whole.
from From the Greek 'astron' (star) plus 'nomos' (law or arrangement) — literally a 'star-arranger,' one who orders the heavens. It came into English through Latin and Old French, and once shared a fuzzy border with 'astrologer'; for centuries the two words were near-twins, and only later did the law-of-the-stars (astronomy) divorce the fate-of-the-stars (astrology).
- ancient light
- Every star you see is a snapshot, possibly already dead.
- first job
- Ancient astronomers doubled as calendar-keepers and crop-timers.
- big numbers
- They casually discuss objects billions of years old.
- women hidden
- Early star catalogs were largely computed by underpaid women.
- night shift
- The original profession that works while you sleep.
galileo galilei — italian astronomer who discovered jupiter's four largest moons in 1610
carl sagan — american astronomer and cosmologist who hosted cosmos and discovered properties of venus's atmosphere
tycho brahe — danish astronomer whose precise observations of mars in the 1580s enabled kepler's laws
vera rubin — american astronomer who provided evidence for dark matter through galactic rotation curves in the 1970s