Vesto Melvin Slipher (/ˈslaɪfər/; November 11, 1875 – November 8, 1969) was an American astronomer who performed the first measurements of radial velocities...
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Slipher may refer to: Earl C. Slipher (1883–1964), American astronomer Vesto Slipher (1875–1969), American astronomer 1766 Slipher, main-belt asteroid...
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Carl Slipher (/ˈslaɪfər/; March 25, 1883 – August 7, 1964) was an American astronomer and politician. He was the brother of astronomer Vesto Slipher. He...
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true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble, and others. Edwin Hubble discovered that most nebulae...
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in 1912, Vesto Slipher discovered that most spiral galaxies, then mostly thought to be spiral nebulae, had considerable redshifts. Slipher first reports...
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spectrum of the nebula associated with the star Merope in the Pleiades, Vesto Slipher concluded in 1912 that the source of its light is most likely the star...
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egg" (emergent Universe) scenarios started being developed. In 1913, Vesto Slipher published his observations that light from remote galaxies was redshifted...
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Hubble's law (section Slipher's observations)
which were earlier measured and related to velocity by Vesto Slipher in 1917. Combining Slipher's velocities with Henrietta Swan Leavitt's intergalactic...
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the universe is expanding. A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae...
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the red shift or blue shift of its spectrum. The American astronomer Vesto Slipher made a series of such measurements from 1902 to 1904 and discovered...
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The asteroid was named after American astronomers Vesto Slipher and his brother Earl C. Slipher. Slipher is member of the mid-sized Padua family (507), an...
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huge number of external galaxies beyond the Milky Way; then, work by Vesto Slipher and others showed that the universe is expanding. These advances made...
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model, this acceleration becomes dominant in the future. In 1912–1914, Vesto M. Slipher discovered that light from remote galaxies was redshifted, a phenomenon...
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Catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts: [ ] by Vesto Slipher (1917) First Catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts: Nebulae by Vesto Slipher Interactive Map of the Visible Universe...
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The sodium layer was first discovered in 1929 by American astronomer Vesto Slipher. In 1939 the British-American geophysicist Sydney Chapman proposed a...
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1910s, Vesto Slipher and later, Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, determined that most spiral nebulae (now called spiral galaxies) were receding from Earth. Slipher used...
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correlation of galactic brightness to redshift) by American astronomers Vesto Slipher and Edwin Hubble, the astrophysicist and priest Georges Lemaître interpreted...
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Angeles, California) Earl C. Slipher – astronomer, Mayor of Flagstaff (originally from Mulberry, Indiana) Vesto Slipher – astronomer (originally from...
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(published in 1918). Further spectroscopic studies by astronomers including Vesto Slipher, Milton Humason, and Nicholas Mayall noted the presence of unusual emission...
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4 July 1054, and probably also by Japanese observers. In 1913, when Vesto Slipher registered his spectroscopy study of the sky, the Crab Nebula was again...
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and similar "spiral nebulae" as star systems being formed. In 1912, Vesto Slipher used spectroscopy to measure the radial velocity of Andromeda with respect...
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Slipher is a lunar impact crater, that is located in the northern latitudes on the far side of the Moon. The crater overlies the southwestern outer rim...
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beyond the Milky Way, and the Milky Way as a galaxy proper. 1922 – Vesto Slipher summarizes his findings on the spiral nebulae's systematic redshifts...
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Wegener: Continental drift 1912: Max von Laue: x-ray diffraction 1912: Vesto Slipher: galactic redshifts 1912: Henrietta Swan Leavitt: Cepheid variable period-luminosity...
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kilometres (79 mi) in diameter and was named after American astronomers Vesto and Earl Slipher. The naming was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System...
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Seyfert galaxies were first detected in 1908 by Edward A. Fath and Vesto Slipher, who were using the Lick Observatory to look at the spectra of astronomical...
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structure of the universe and from theoretical considerations. In 1912, Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a "spiral nebula" (spiral nebula...
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observations in the 1900s gave the first clues about the Venusian rotation. Vesto Slipher tried to measure the Doppler shift of light from Venus, but found he...
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and dark energy and includes discussion of: The work of astronomers Vesto Slipher and then Edwin Hubble in demonstrating the universe is expanding; Vera...
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towards the red end of the spectrum than a stationary line. In 1913 Vesto Slipher determined the Andromeda Galaxy was blueshifted, meaning it was moving...
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