is a specific kind of: physicist.

is a broader term that covers: astrophysicist | cosmologist.

instances of which are: Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, al-Haytham, Alhacen, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham | Anaximander | Aristarchus of Samos | Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch | Brahe, Tycho Brahe | Anders Celsius, Celsius | Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik, Nicolaus Copernicus | Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington | Eratosthenes | Galileo, Galileo Galilei | George Ellery Hale, Hale | Asaph Hall, Hall | Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley, Halley | Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, William Herschel | Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Sir John Herschel | Hipparchus | Huggins, Sir William Huggins | Hypatia | Johan Kepler, Johannes Kepler, Kepler | Gerard Kuiper, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Kuiper | Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley | Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace | Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, Sir Bernard Lovell | Lowell, Percival Lowell | Maria Mitchell, Mitchell | Johann Muller, Muller, Regiomontanus | Newcomb, Simon Newcomb | Omar Khayyam | Jan Hendrix Oort, Oort | Benjamin Peirce, Peirce | Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy | David Rittenhouse, Rittenhouse | Henry Norris Russell, Henry Russell, Russell | Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, Schiaparelli | Harlow Shapley, Shapley | Sitter, Willem de Sitter | Thales, Thales of Miletus | Clyde Tombaugh, Clyde William Tombaugh, Tombaugh ... show more.

domain category: astronomy, uranology.

derivation: stargaze.