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From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies

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With this book we neither aimed at tracing a history, even concise, of extragalactic astronomy nor at summarizing the vast panorama of scientific successes in this field of astrophysics. Our wish was to stimulate some distinguished researchers, via interviews in specific fields of extragalactic studies, at expressing their own convictions and perplexities about the progresses achieved in our understanding of galaxies across one century of research, if necessary emphasizing the scientific problems that still remain open. After about fifty interviews, we try in this chapter to delineate a picture underlying the facts and the views emerged from the presentations.

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D’Onofrio, M., Rampazzo, R., Zaggia, S. (2016). Lights and Shadows on Galaxies Understanding. In: D'Onofrio, M., Rampazzo, R., Zaggia, S. (eds) From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 435. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31006-0_10

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