Associations to the word «Astronomy»

Wiktionary

ASTRONOMY, noun. The study of the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere, including the process of mapping locations and properties of the matter and radiation in the universe.

Dictionary definition

ASTRONOMY, noun. The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne