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Two years later, Lemaître's model was confirmed by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who had observed that the galaxies everywhere around us were receding.
A Polish astronomer named Copernicus (1473-1543) rudely pointed out: Sorry earthlings, we spin around the sun, not vice versa.
In the matter of Celsius versus centigrade , the point is not that they are “identical” (which is ambiguous for `very similar' and `the same thing'), but that they are the same thing: the scale formerly called centigrade was renamed in 1948 to honor Anders Celsius, the 18th-century Swedish astronomer who devised it.
Contact 's central premise is intriguing: A radio astronomer, played by Jodie Foster, receives a blizzard of binary mathematical data from a civilization in distant space.
Planets are a prerequisite for extraterrestrial life, and one astronomer now guesses "there are planets around 30 to 50 percent of stars."