Many of them are paid via grants from the government, or they work directly for the government (ex. in an agency such as NASA). Either way, they are paid with taxpayer dollars, if they are paid at all.
Donations, government partly, various companies sponsoring them, etc. For example, it looks good on companies to have their name in space, so they'll sponsor experiments and such.
Typically universities, but various governments employ astronomers as well. Examples include the U.S. Navy, the UK Royal Navy, NASA, and the Russian space agency.
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How do they measure what?
Later polish astronomers
Astronomers label the stars within constellations according to apparent magnitude.
Astronomers and physicists.
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Mainly astronomers. But cosmologists and astrophysicists will also be interested in outer space.
amateur astronomers and astronomers
astronomers.
people who study about the universe are called astronomers
Juno was the third asteroid to be discovered by astronomers early in the 19th century.
The same reason why people name anything - to distinguish between them. Comets are named with the year of discovery, a serial number, and the discoverer's name. Most "comet hunters" are amateur astronomers who live for the fleeting fame of having discovered a comet; being an "amateur comet hunter" isn't a job that pays anything. The fame of having a comet named for them is their only reward.
Saint Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers
88 constellations are recognized by astronomers.
No, it was the Mayans that were great astronomers and mathematicians
The dry area is a good place for the astronomers for telescopes.
India astronomers recognized that the earth was a sphere.