astronomy

UK:  [ə'strɒnəmi]

US:  [ə'strɑnəmi]

n.

1.天文学

1 . Astronomy, which has always stimulated curiosity, can be a rallying point for a strong learning culture.
天文学总是能激发好奇心，它可以成为一种强有力的学习文化的汇合点。

2 . Over the past hundred years or so, the science of astronomy has been utterly predictable, in an utterly unpredictable sort of way.
天文学在过去的百年左右，已经完全可预见的，在一个完全不可预知的排序方式。

3 . Astronomy may be hard science, but there's always been a whiff of Disney about it too.
尽管归属硬科学，但天文学里总有一些迪斯尼般的奇幻存在。

4 . And what we try to do in astronomy and cosmology is to go back before Darwin's simple beginning, to set our Earth in a cosmic context.
我们进行天文学和宇宙学研究要做的就是回溯到达尔文的理论原点将我们的地球置于宇宙的背景中。

5 . In astronomy, the "diameter" of a stellar image as it appears on a CCD frame is often described by the FWHM of the PSF of the source.
在天文上，用CCD拍摄的一颗恒星的“角直径”经常被描述为该点扩展函数的半最大值宽度。