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Convention plays a major role in all aspects of language, of course: by convention we call a certain fruit a banana and the group of islands west of Morocco the Azores (or the equivalent in other languages); astronomers have no difficulty in agreeing to call a certain configuration in the heavens the Horsehead Nebula every day of the week and not something different on Sundays, and chemists concur in describing the properties of sodium chloride.
Mayan astronomers tracked the movements of the heavenly bodies, predicting eclipses and marking the times for the planting of the new corn.
The figures just behind Prince Henry represent noted explorers, map-makers, and astronomers whom he mobilized in order to launch Portuguese ships into the history books.
Astronomers estimated that the moon appeared 7 percent to 14 percent larger than normal and 3 percent to 7 percent brighter.
A story claims the cellular phone boom is the bane of radio astronomers.