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AVI Audio  |  1998-10-23  |  1.1 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  1 minute, 37 seconds
Transcription: The supernova is always known as Kepler's star, just as the 1572 supernova is remembered as Tuco's star in honour of Tuco Braha. But logically it really should be called Bronowski's star. Kepler consulted the records of other European astronomers and proved that Jan Bronowski really had been the discoverer. Though it was not as brilliant as the 1572 star in Cassiopeia, it attracted wide attention. One reason for this is that it laid close to the position in the sky where, a couple of months earlier, Saturn and Jupiter had been in conjunction. Mars subsequently moved in between the two giant pl ...

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