Careers in Science
Astronomy
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About the Job
The reason they study space is to find answers about the nature of the universe. Astronomers use telescopes to see the light from stars. In this field you also have to know the electro magnetic scale, and you use math and physics on a daily basis. The work often is done in a laboratory and your schedule would be really crazy and your hours would be really weird.
What factors affect employment
When you think of an astronomer you usually envision a person in a laboratory looking at the stars through a telescope. Well there aren't a lot of job openings like that for that kind of astronomers anywhere. Although there aren't a lot of jobs like that there are many in colleges where you can teach astronomy. For example St. Norbert's , University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Marian have job openings for teachers.
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