1912
Galaxy Redshift
Slipher measures a large redshift for the Andromeda nebula, beginning the observational path toward an expanding universe
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Lowell Observatory in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Slipher measures a large redshift for the Andromeda nebula, beginning the observational path toward an expanding universe
Provenance
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