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Constitution and Dynamics of the Galactic System

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The New Cosmos

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W. Herschel (1783–1822) was the first to seek to penetrate the structure of the galactic system, in his “star gauging”, by counting how many stars down to a given limiting magnitude he could see in various directions.

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Physics and University Observatory, Kiel, Germany

    Albrecht Unsöld

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Unsöld, A. (1969). Constitution and Dynamics of the Galactic System. In: The New Cosmos. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7598-2_23

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