What types of careers are there in astronomy?

Question

besides teaching...

Answer 1

It depends on what you mean by types of careers.

If you meant where you can work : astronomers work for colleges and universities (teaching and/or doing research), national labs like LALN, LLNL, NOAO (doing research), for NASA (doing research and working on NASA projects), and a small number work for observatories, museums, and in industry, such as for Lockheed-Martin or Northrup-Grummun (there aren't many industry jobs in astronomy).

If you meant what research you can do (and astronomers really need a PhD to do pretty much any job in astronomy) : planetary science, solar physics, stellar astrophysics, galactic astronomy, and cosmology are the big areas.  They have many, many subfields.

Answer 2

Astrophysics, Astrogeology, Astrochemistry, Astronaut, Research Analyst, Astrobiology(study of how life could be on different planets) & many more...Hey! go to www.nasa.gov & then on the search engine, search 'nasa jobs'......

Answer 3

Astronomer comes to my mind first.  Then maybe an astronaut and an engineer working for a company that designs and builds spacecraft.

Answer 4

Scientist-ing.  Haha.  And researching.

Answer 5

roket science, quantam mechanics, astronuat, recording movments of planets and stars, u.f.o identification, the team that builds the roket, .....