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Astronomy is an exceptional science. Astronomers cannot take the objects of their research back into the laboratory and cannot experiment with them or conduct physical measurements. They have to extract all their information from the light of unreachable celestial bodies – light that has taken hundreds, or even thousands, of years to reach the Earth.
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Schilling, G. (2011). 1808 - 1908 Paving the Way for Major Theoretical Breakthroughs. In: Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7811-0_3
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