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astronomical

If something is astronomical, it is very big, or very high. If something is astronomical, it is of or relating to astronomy.

astronomical

(= astronomic) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy astronomic telescope (= astronomic) inconceivably large

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Simple sentences

The figure will be astronomical.
The demotion of Pluto from the status of a planet was a very hotly debated issue within the astronomical community.
Makemake was first discovered in 2005. It was formally recognized as a dwarf planet in 2008 by the International Astronomical Union.
Thales used the astronomical records of the Babylonians and Egyptians to accurately predict a solar eclipse in the sixth century BC.
The Astronomical Unit (AU) is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is approximately 150 million km (93 million miles).
One parsec is the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond.
Some people believe that Galileo was the first person who built a telescope. While this is not true, he was the first person who published his observations of astronomical objects through a telescope.

Movie subtitles

Astronomical observatories.
William Jeans - Astronomical Department, Space Gun.
I'm all right with tools. I've done quite a little work with astronomical instruments, but when it comes to theory I'm pretty much of an amateur.
Why, the total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.
Astronomical section reports a comet recently passed by.
Oh, it isn't a party. It's just a meeting of a little. astronomical society I've joined.
You've said you've joined an astronomical society, have you, Simon?
Simon, those charts. They're not astronomical, are they?
Well, they're astronomical, believe me. Astronomical.
What are the odds of such duplication? Astronomical, captain.
Friends, my hobbies are astronomical physics and parapsychology.
The estimate for security is astronomical.
The odds against something like this happening are astronomical.
Within the astronomical community that was a very important discovery: the fact that there was regularity in something astronomers had always considered to be chaotic!
It was built in direct relationship to the stars, so it has an astronomical significance.
The demand for statuettes shot up to astronomical heights.
We don't yet have the translation commission's results, but our experiments in astronomical research continue.
An astronomical amount.
This is an astronomical observatory.
Astronomical, captain.
I can't write an astronomical treatise on the moon and stars.
Abdul, you're the most skillful slave auctioneer in the entire Orient. So I needn't tell you the girl will be sold last, and for an astronomical price.
Well, they're astronomical, believe me.
Astronomical.
His point total for this one'll be something astronomical.
This is the offer, Mr. Bancroft! It is an astronomical figure.
Ladies and gentlemen get your tickets for our astronomical horse.
You will now see the Astronomical Horse.
Here are the astronomical readings you asked for, Organon.
He had been in charge of cataloging the astronomical monuments of Egypt.
Almost a thousand years ago in the American Southwest the Anasazi people built a stone temple an astronomical observatory to mark the longest day of the year.

News and current affairs

Indeed, when US equity prices reached astronomical levels in the late 1990s, the pundits and investment bankers trotted out their silly explanations and theories.
Worse, not only was the frequency of these events vastly underestimated; so was the astronomical damage they would cause - something like the meltdowns that keep dogging the nuclear industry.
Brazil needs a new growth model, based on four key elements: tighter fiscal policy, looser monetary policy, a reduced role for state-owned banks in credit provision, and measures to lower Brazil's astronomical private lending costs.
Greece, for example, got into trouble doing precisely this, employing many thousands in the government and overpaying them, even while it ran up public debt to astronomical levels.
This is as true as astronomical facts get, particularly because we have sent artificial satellites into orbit and seen that our planet is indeed roundish.
Astronomical science was a common term in the late nineteenth century, to distinguish it from astrology and the study of ancient myths about the constellations.
Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society.
The alternative is stunting, which currently afflicts an astronomical 165 million children.
When Einstein managed to generalise his theory and introduced the curved space-time, in which light bends around heavy astronomical bodies, the number of nominations increased even more.
No doubt quite a few of them would have trouble paying the astronomical costs of American health-care bills without government assistance.
So experimenters will be looking for new particles with the right properties to provide the astronomical dark matter: very long-lived and very feebly interacting with ordinary matter or light.
Now, Brazil has abandoned its currency defense, but only after sending the economy toward depression and building up huge debts following a year of astronomical interest rates.

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