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What is a little more interesting now, and also visible tonight and this week, are the close and prominent positioning of Venus and Jupiter in the western sky right after sunset, the astronomical word for this is ‘conjunction.’ These planets will be setting as the moon is rising, so they are only visible for about an hour at sunset, near the western horizon.

Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’re a Black artist in America, by default you’re an activist. I have an obligation to make sure if they can’t find images that portray them as human beings, I will make sure to do it myself, i write my books so when Black children pick them up they don’t want to put it down because they see themselves. It’s a mirror. They see it and think ‘This is who I am, I’m someone with astronomical goals. I love myself. I love my skin. I love my hair. I love my family. I love my neighborhood.’.

Derrick Barnes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A much smaller cousin, or sister, doesn't necessarily add to what we know about the dinosaurs' extinction, but it does add to our understanding of the astronomical event that was Chicxulub.

Profession Sean Gulick

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Unlike some astronomical events, there's not( a situation where) you've got to look at it this instant or else you miss it, there's really no moment that you have to be looking at it to maximize your enjoyment of the full moon. If it's cloudy and you don't want to be outside, just go one of the next nights.

Noah Petro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By putting that deadline there, we're hoping to create some urgency to get them to act, we're trying to get them so they don't get to the point where their electricity bill is just astronomical, and it becomes really, really difficult to catch up.

Tom Dominguez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Life is just a frame in astronomical sense, yet it is remembered mostly by those around you, so be a good person and take a great picture.

Louis Wong

added by Louiswong38
2 years ago

I think with media dollars being so astronomical these days, and four, five, six guys always being the ones that are being used to promote the tournament, I guess it's just a way of trying to sort of incentivize them, a rising tide lifts all ships, so obviously the whole tour has benefited very much from a group of guys.

Justin Rose

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's just an amazing opportunity. With Jerry Lewis the man's history speaks for itself. What Jerry Lewis was able to do with Jerry Lewis telethon and the money Jerry Lewis was able to raise, it was unbelievable, the numbers are astronomical, to have the opportunity to revive it, change it and still, of course, fulfill the cause at hand as well as bring some awareness to other things that are going on, I just felt it was a great moment.

Kevin Hart

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have been blessed with an astronomical amount of support, and all of our success is because of the community and the people.

Bernal Bakery owners

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The close proximity of the stars meant that they felt each others' gravity much more strongly in those early days than they do today, this enabled Astronomical Society.These asteroids to be pulled from one star system to another.

Fathi Namouni

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My reaction to the TRAPPIST system was very emotional, it got me so excited thinking about what it looked like on these planets, everything we'd hoped for when we had science fiction visions of other worlds. Working on Robert Hurt, I've been able to illustrate so many different kinds of astronomical objects. It felt like we kept opening these new doors to what kinds of discoveries Robert Hurt could make. And at times, we were the first to illustrate these unanticipated findings.

Tim Pyle

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We tried to get some of the data from one of the providers and they quoted us an astronomical price.

Benjamin Keys

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In terms of counting millennia or centuries or decades, it doesn't really matter, it's a man-made system. It matters in terms of categorizing time spans and talking about time spans. But the 203rd decade is, in astronomical terms, no different than the decade before or after.

Konstantin Bikos

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Tanker rates need to re-rate back to economically palatable levels to entice U.S. exports, the astronomical freight rates of last few days had eroded export economics from the Gulf Coast.

Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the last few decades, researchers have begun to understand that evolution of life on Earth is dependent on astronomical events also.

Birger Schmitz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Unlike stars, Royal Astronomical Society won't twinkle, even when Royal Astronomical Society's low down, Royal Astronomical Society will look pretty steady, and Royal Astronomical Society will make Royal Astronomical Society stand out. You'll need a good clear southern horizon to see it.

Robert Massey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The huge crash in 2018 was a correction after a speculative mania. The gains in 2017 were astronomical.

Everett Millman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When you have an unregulated space, bad actors do tend to flock there and so if you look at the amount of enforcement cases that have come and the amount of manipulation and fraud and all of the other things – bad sales practices and the like – that have happened in that space, it's astronomical.

Brett Redfearn

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Having spent over two decades in prison, Qin Yongmin has already paid an astronomical price for exercising his basic rights to advocate peacefully for political reforms, the Chinese government should reverse the latest judgment and release him immediately.

Sophie Richardson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A series of astronomical observations obtained over the period 1986 to 2018 supports the idea that life is a cosmic rather than a purely terrestrial or planetary phenomenon, these include the detection of biologically relevant molecules in interstellar clouds and comets, mid-infrared spectra of interstellar grains and the dust from comets, a diverse set of data from comets including the Rosetta mission showing consistency with biology and the frequency of Earth-like or habitable planets in the Galaxy.

Professor Lattanzio

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This type of heat wave is typical for early summer, it's not astronomical.

Bob Oravec

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Certainly the fact that there were reports of sound connected to Royal Astronomical Society as well is interesting.

Robert Massey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get -- and I say it also is also part of my plan -- Mexico is going to play for the wall.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This information about generics is especially timely now, given all we've seen in the last year or two demonstrating that brand-name companies can charge whatever they please for their products, even if the price is astronomical, it's not clear that will change any time soon, making it even more important to educate doctors to use generics whenever possible.

Jerome Avorn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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