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September 17th, 1912

First Radial Velocity of Andromeda

Slipher, Vesto Melvin · Lowell Observatory · Astronomer

Measures the Doppler shift of M31 and finds a very large approach velocity, the first radial-velocity measurement made for a spiral nebula.

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