Sentences with phrase «modern astronomers know»
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The stella nova, modern astronomers now know, was actually a supernova.
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Modern astronomers have yet to see one in our Milky Way but have managed to witness a few dozen in nearby galaxies with known progenitor stars.
Wickramasinghe and well known astronomer, writer, and populariser of science Sir Fred Hoyle, now an associate of the centre, pioneered a forerunner to modern astrobiology with their theory of «panspermia» in the 1970s.
Previously rendered only in artists» conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet.