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Karl Lundmark

Swedish astronomer

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history of astronomy

  • Hubble Space Telescope
    In astronomy: Galaxies and the expanding universe

    In 1924 Swedish astronomer Karl Lundmark published an empirical study that gave a roughly linear relation (though with lots of scatter) between the distances and velocities of the spirals. The difficulty was in knowing the distances accurately enough. Lundmark used novae that had been observed in the Andromeda Nebula…

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