ASTROPHYSICIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astrophysicist mean? 

• ASTROPHYSICIST (noun)
  The noun ASTROPHYSICIST has 1 sense:

1. an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies

  Familiarity information: ASTROPHYSICIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTROPHYSICIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("astrophysicist" is a kind of...):

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

Instance hyponyms:

Fred Hoyle; Hoyle; Sir Fred Hoyle (an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001))

Edwin Hubble; Edwin Powell Hubble; Hubble (United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953))

Derivation:

astrophysics (the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies)

 Context examples 

A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June 16, 2018, puzzled astronomers and astrophysicists across the globe.

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)

Rice University astrophysicists are doing just that, building a computer model to help judge how a star’s own atmosphere impacts its planets, for better or worse.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )

“We describe GJ 357 b as a ‘hot Earth,’” explains co-author Enric Pallé, an astrophysicist at the IAC.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine, said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, whose team may be closing in.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

The astrophysicist warns that a similar strike could destroy a major city, and a large asteroid could prove even more dangerous.

(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The observations show that iron vapour is abundant in the atmosphere of the hot day side of WASP-76b," adds María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, and the chair of the ESPRESSO science team.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

Our analysis suggests that this same pulsar could be responsible for a decade-long puzzle about why one type of cosmic particle is unusually abundant near Earth, said Mattia Di Mauro, an astrophysicist at the Catholic University of America in Washington and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

The models run by the team of astrophysicists from Northwestern University showed supernova explosions could eject vast amounts of gas beyond their own galaxies, with atoms transported from one galaxy to another via powerful winds.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Such a closely packed mixture of ages is extremely odd, according to Luisa Rebull, an astrophysicist at NASA's Infrared Science Archive at Caltech-IPAC who has studied NGC 1333 and some of the clusters below it.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

An astrophysicist has warned that Earth could be hit with a surprise asteroid strike.

(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)