[newguy357]

In a cascade of superlatives that belies the traditional cerebral reserve of their profession, astronomers reported...

Oh please. Only astronomers with accomplishments hold to the confines of dignity. Hasn't the author observed the embarrassingly juvenile NASA astronomers/scientists wetting themselves over the smallest of successes? They're like 12-year-old boys at the site of a naked woman.

[newguy357]

Well, I meant “sight,” but “site,” works just as well.