Noun:

ज्योतिष-शास्र, खगोल-विद्या,

astronomy's Usage Examples:

Newcomb, Popular Astronomy; Lick Observatory publications.

During an administration of nearly twenty-five years Pond effected a reform of practical astronomy in England comparable to that effected by Bessel in Germany.

In 1657 he became professor of astronomy at Gresham College, and in 1660 was elected Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford.

Yet he found time, amid these multifarious occupations, to elaborate an entirely new system of astronomy, by the adoption of which man's outlook on the universe was fundamentally changed.

In 1851 he visited the Bonn Observatory, and studied astronomy under Argelander.

irapaXX6, alternately), in astronomy, the apparent change in the direction of a heavenly body when viewed from two different points.

Berry, A Short History of Astronomy, p. 200; R.

Ball, Spherical Astronomy, p. 303.

In 1844 he was elected ordinary professor of higher mechanics and astronomy, a position which he held till his death on the 26th of September 1868.

C. Watson's Theoretical Astronomy is the most complete in the English language.

Synonyms:

physics, astrophysics, astrometry, radio astronomy, uranology, selenology, solar physics, celestial mechanics, natural philosophy, astrodynamics,