Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959. Baade was born the...
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In 1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes...
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Magellan Telescopes (redirect from Baade telescope)
the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T. Clay. First light for the telescopes was on September 15, 2000 for the Baade, and September...
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Institute of Technology; the German-born Wilson Observatory-based astronomer Walter Baade was his advisor. During this time Sandage was a graduate student assistant...
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imply that all galaxies are moving away from each other. Astronomer Walter Baade recalculated the size of the known universe in the 1940s, doubling the...
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apparent Large Sagittarius Star Cloud visible. It is named for astronomer Walter Baade, who first recognized its significance. This area corresponds to one...
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They were first recognized as being distinct from classical Cepheids by Walter Baade in 1942, in a study of Cepheids in the Andromeda Galaxy that proposed...
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the Milky Way. In 1943, Walter Baade was the first person to resolve stars in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy. Baade identified two distinct...
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pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-61530-884-2. Donald E. Osterbrock; Walter Baade (2001-10-14). Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics. Princeton University Press. pp...
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1036 Ganymed (category Discoveries by Walter Baade)
near-Earth object of the Amor group. It was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924, and named...
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connection between cosmic rays and supernovas was first suggested by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934. Vitaly Ginzburg and Sergei Syrovatskii in 1964...
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Observatory for ten years. She edited and published the lectures of Walter Baade as Evolution of Stars and Galaxies (1963). Payne-Gaposchkin's career...
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the area blocked the view for optical astronomy. In the early 1940s Walter Baade at Mount Wilson Observatory took advantage of wartime blackout conditions...
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work on this new category of nova was performed during the 1930s by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky at Mount Wilson Observatory. They identified S Andromedae...
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member of the Palomar Globular Clusters group. It was discovered by Walter Baade in 1950, and independently found again by Albert George Wilson in 1955...
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the spinning supermassive black hole. The German-American astronomer Walter Baade found that light from the jet was plane polarized, which suggests that...
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Walter Baade, Zwicky pioneered and promoted the use of the first Schmidt telescopes used in a mountain-top observatory in 1935. In 1934 he and Baade coined...
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Baade is a lunar impact crater that is located near the southwest limb of the Moon on the near side, to the southwest of the enormous Mare Orientale impact...
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LCDB 1221 Amor 1932 Eugène Delporte MPC · JPL · LCDB 1036 Ganymed 1924 Walter Baade MPC · JPL · LCDB 887 Alinda 1918 Max Wolf MPC · JPL · LCDB 719 Albert...
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meaning "Alpine valley" None Vallis Baade 45°54′S 76°12′W / 45.9°S 76.2°W / -45.9; -76.2 203 km Walter Baade Baade Vallis Bohr 12°24′N 86°36′W / 12...
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at the Pulsars.' The existence of neutron stars was first proposed by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934, when they argued that a small, dense star consisting...
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period of 2.27 hours was discovered on 27 June 1949, by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Palomar Observatory in California. It was named after the mythological...
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novae, which are far less luminous. The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky, who began using it in astrophysics lectures in 1931...
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conjecture turns out to have been correct; it had been argued by astronomers Walter Baade and E.C. Bower as early as 1934. However, because Triton's mass was then...
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primary minds behind the project were Edwin Hubble, Milton L. Humason, Walter Baade, Ira Sprague Bowen and Rudolph Minkowski. The first photographic plate...
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Crab Pulsar (redirect from Baade's star)
The Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21 or Baade's Star) is a relatively young neutron star. The star is the central star in the Crab Nebula, a remnant of the supernova...
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Chandrasekhar 1953 – Harold D. Babcock 1954 – Bertil Lindblad 1955 – Walter Baade 1956 – Albrecht Unsöld 1957 – Ira S. Bowen 1958 – William Wilson Morgan...
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The Baade-Wesselink method is a method for determining the distance of a Cepheid variable star suggested by Walter Baade in 1926 and further developed...
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together with Walter Baade, divided them into two classes (Type I and Type II) based on their spectral characteristics. He and Baade also found optical...
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Paul Baade (born 1940), American politician Paul W. Baade (1889–1959), American army officer Walter Baade (1893–1960), German astronomer Baade (disambiguation)...
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