Astronomer Job Description

So first I'll describe, roughly, my initial ideas about what a modern astronomer's job would include. The main thing that comes to mind would be actually looking at stars or other objects in the night sky with powerful telescopes. I'm sure a lot of astronomers do this, but I doubt they spend most or even a large fraction of their time looking into the night sky (maybe they do on their free time). Surely, they must spend most of their time analyzing data and thinking about models that apply to the data, but what else would they do? Well, someone has to teach us this stuff so an astronomer might teach or do research at a school. What else is there to do for a person interested in discovering the underlying framework of the universe?
According to this website I found, using something called "The Internet", astronomers are useful to society in a few other ways. Some astronomers work in observatories, planetariums, and museums and bring their knowledge to the general public. Personally, I think this is extremely important to the progress of mankind; exposing the public to new and exciting ideas will keep them interested and wanting to support scientists, in general, in their work. Astronomers have improved weather forecasting, the way we measure time and its accuracy, and navigation on land, air, and sea. These contributions are incredibly helpful, not only to scientists, but everyone. With a smartphone, we don't have to worry about getting lost or being unsure of what to wear for the day's weather (some of us are still unsure but that might be a personal problem not easily fixed by astronomers). Knowing more of our environment enables us to make more efficient decisions and set our minds to worry about greater things than "is this tiger gonna eat me?" or "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?" and spend that brain power on societies' bigger problems.
 Back to research and new discoveries. Astronomers are in charge of deciding what to study and how to study it, astronomy related. This includes developing new techniques to make better use of the equipment already being used and coming up with new technologies or methods leading to more accurate data. More accurate data leads to better theories and better theories lead to a more fundamental understanding of the universe, which intern leads to different ways of progressing as people. A beautiful circle of progress, starting from an interest in the unknown, going through the process of discovery, and ending at something learned and possibly used for the benefit of someone or something. Then it starts all over again.

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