Sentences with phrase «modern astronomers now»

The stella nova, modern astronomers now know, was actually a supernova.

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Now, astronomers have identified a galaxy that had already begun to resemble the modern Milky Way when the universe was only 3 billion years old, one - fifth of its current age.

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.