A planetary astronomer is a scientist who studies and explores planets and celestial bodies in our solar system and beyond. They focus on understanding the properties, behavior, and origins of these astronomical objects. Full definition
«This is the first exoplanet discovered with the Gemini Planet Imager, one of the new generation instruments designed specifically for discovering and analyzing faint, young planets orbiting bright stars,» said Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute and member of the team that built the instrument and now conducts the survey. (keckobservatory.org)
But planetary astronomer Mike Brown and others infer that larger, planet - size bodies could have also been exiled to the Oort cloud; this is the basis for our Planet Y. — The editors (discovermagazine.com)
Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate, according to UC Berkeley doctoral student Joshua Tollefson, who was recently awarded a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to study Neptune's atmosphere. (sciencedaily.com)