How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47

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With some regularity, I get asked the difference between astronomy and astrophysics. I suppose I’m a good person to ask: Of my three degrees, two of them are in “astronomy and astrophysics”. But what this merger means is that even we “astronomers and astrophysicists” have given up telling the difference between the two. How does astronomy fit into physics? Well, my position is that astronomy is now essentially an area of physics, but I know some people…

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