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Barred Spirals

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1939

Edwin Powell Hubble1939

Science / Astronomy

Hubble publishes a report on barred spiral galaxies, extending his morphological work on systems whose spiral arms emerge from a central bar rather than directly from the nucleus.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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