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Our knowledge of the structure of the universe has come to us slowly, over many decades. Even as late as 1920 astronomers were still uncertain of what it looked like on the largest scale. At that time the structure of the solar system was fairly well established, and astronomers knew the distance to some of the stars. Furthermore, they knew that we lived in a large “system” of stars. But what did the universe look like beyond this system? How were the stars arranged?
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Parker, B. (1989). The Expanding Universe. In: Invisible Matter and the Fate of the Universe. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6469-4_2
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