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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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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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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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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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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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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