Stargazer's excited peek left and right (6)
I believe the answer is:
kepler
'stargazer's' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'excited peek left and right' is the wordplay.
'excited' indicates anagramming the letters.
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation**).
'peek'+'l'='peekl'
'peekl' is an anagram of 'keple'.
'keple'+'r'='KEPLER'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for kepler that I've seen before include "German astronomer who first stated the laws of the movements of planets" , "German astronomer who first stated the laws of planetary motion" , "Johannes ---, found laws of motion" , "Johannes -, sixteenth and seventeenth century German astronomer" .)