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Astronomy is the science of the sky: stars, planets, moons, comets, galaxies — what they are, how they move, how they are born and how they die. You do it with telescopes, maths, and a lot of patient looking, not with luck or fortune-telling. The person is an . Students mix this up with , which tries to read the sky as a guide to personality or the future. Astronomy is a science; is not — though actually, for a long time in Europe the two sat in the same chair, and the word is older than that clean split. In everyday talk people also stretch “astronomy” to mean almost anything about space, even rockets or physics, which is looser than a scientist would like.
From the word’s history
From Middle English astronomie, from Old French astronomie; astro- + -nomy.
源自古法文 astronomie，由 astro-「星」加 -nomy 組成。
組成astro- (star) + -nomy (a system of knowledge). From Middle English astronomie / astronemy, from Old French astronomie. It pushed out the older English word tungolcræft.
同家族的字
- astronomerthe person who does astronomy
- astronomicalthe adjective; also stretched in talk to mean “huge”
- astrophysicsshares astro-; the physics side of studying stars and space
- astrologyshares astro- (star), but it is not the science
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astronomynoun/əˈstɹɒn.ə.mi/
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The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.
- The fact is, dark energy is the biggest mystery in science. It has driven a huge amount of research in the past decade, and was a key driver in last year’s “New Worlds, New Horizons” report from the National Academies of Science, which prioritized future astronomy and astrophysics projects.
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obsoleteAstrology.
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy […]
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