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By Mauro D'Onofrio, Roberto Rampazzo, Simone Zaggia

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In order to stipulate attainable destiny instructions in galaxy learn, this booklet desires to be a brief stopover, a second of self-reflection of the prior century of achievements during this area.

Since the pioneering years of galaxy study within the early twentieth century, the learn on galaxies has visible a constant boost at once attached to the parallel exponential development of recent applied sciences.

Through a sequence of interviews with unique astronomers the editors offer a photo of the achievements acquired in realizing galaxies. whereas many preliminary questions about their nature were addressed, many are nonetheless open and require new efforts to accomplish an answer. The discussions may perhaps display paradigms necessary revisiting. With the aid of a few of these scientists who've contributed to it, the editors caricature the heritage of this medical trip and ask them for inspirations for destiny instructions of galaxy research.

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Edwin Hubble (Fig. 3), as mentioned earlier, working also at Mt. Wilson, resolved the island universe debate with his discovery of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda “nebula” and other spirals, which demonstrated their stellar nature and put lower limits on their distances and hence sizes. That discovery left the Fig. 3 Walter Adams, Sir James Jeans and Edwin Powell Hubble at the 100” dome of Mount Wilson. Courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology 1 Extragalactic Astronomy: From Pioneers to Big Science 11 Shapley Super Galaxy intact, however, since the globular cluster distribution was not affected.

22 R. Rampazzo et al. An extensive reference catalog of 959 Seyfert galaxies (245 of them are the Markarian galaxies) containing observational data obtained before 1987 was published by Lipovetsky and collaborators (1987). More than 900 references were cited in this catalog, including numerous studies carried out by the Soviet astronomers. L. P. A. Dibai and others. The catalog of galaxies with an ultraviolet excess, the First Byurakan Survey—FBS, was published in 1989 (Markarian et al. 1989). The updated version of the Catalog of Markarian Galaxies has been published by Petrosian and collaborators in 2007 (also see an enormous reference list therein).

Edu R. edu V. S. -O. com © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 M. D’Onofrio et al. 1007/978-3-319-31006-0_1 1 2 R. Rampazzo et al. Le donne, i cavalier, l’arme, gli amori, Le cortesie, l’audaci imprese io canto [. . ] L. R. de Carvalho Divisão de Astrofísica-DAS, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, Av. 758 Jd. com N. jp J. G. edu L. edu D. Calzetti Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, LGRT-B 524, 710 N. edu G. edu F. Combes Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, 61 Av de L’Observatoire Bat.

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