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Five Historic Photographs from Palomar

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1949

Edwin Powell Hubble1949

Science / Astronomy

Hubble publishes Five Historic Photographs from Palomar in Scientific American, presenting early Hale telescope images that demonstrated the new observatory's power for deep astronomical photography.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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