First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer.

The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.

Similarly, the Astronomer Royal, whom we heard speak yesterday, also has a 50 percent probability estimate.

Now any astronomer will tell you, this is the telltale sign of something that doesn't originate from Earth.

On May 22nd, there was a hero's reburial in Frombork, Poland of the 16th century astronomer who actually changed the world.

My talk will be in two parts. I'll talk first as an astronomer, and then as a worried member of the human race.

Because they thought that if you are having a telescope, you are an astronomer so what you are doing is actually looking in a telescope.

Ten years ago, you couldn't have found an astronomer well, very few astronomers in the world who would've told you that there are any planets anywhere outside our solar system.

Speaking as both an astronomer and a concerned member of the human race, Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspective. He urges action to prevent dark consequences from our scientific and technological development.

In 1948, the astronomer Fred Hoyle said, Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available once the sheer isolation of the earth becomes plain a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

Led by a literary scholar and an astronomer, this new residential college aims to break down interdisciplinary boundaries and enable students to learn from one another. Likewise, Quest University in Canada encourages students to bring both scientific and humanistic knowledge to bear on today s most pressing problems.

Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere . Preliminary results show that they have found 706 candidates some of which further research may prove to be planets with Earth like geochemical characteristics.

As one fruit of their efforts, an astronomer from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), heading an international team, used HST apos s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in May 1994 to obtain valuable new images of Supernova 1994I, discovered by amateur astronomers in April 1994 in the inner regions of the quot Whirlpool Galaxy, quot M51.

The BMI is calculated by dividing a person s body weight in kilograms by the square of his height in meters (kg m2). First named after the Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who demonstrated in 1835 how adult weight normally increases in proportion to height squared, the index provides a measure of body weight, independent of stature, allowing us to compare the weight of short and tall people.