• Question: what does astronomy mean?

    Asked by varleyedwards to Ezzy on 12 Mar 2012.
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      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Astro means star in the Latin, so astronomy is the study of stars. Technically astronomy is the part where you take pictures of space and the bit where you work out what it all means is called astrophysics so really I’m an astrophysicst.

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