Meaning | An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies. |
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Instances | Hoyle, Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle | An English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology |
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Hubble, Edwin Hubble, Edwin Powell Hubble | United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953) |
Broader | astronomer, uranologist, stargazer | A physicist who studies astronomy |
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Spanish | astrofísico |
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Catalan | astrofísic |
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Nouns | astrophysics | the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies |
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