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Space

Allan Sandage’s Last Paper Unravels 100-Year-Old Astronomical Mystery

by Press on May 17, 2016

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George Gamow and astronomer Walter Adams' hand-drawn letter — George Gamow and astronomer Walter Adams exchanged a letter that included a hand-drawn figure from Gamow that predated Sandage’s illustration of stellar evolution by 10 years. Image from the Walter Adams Papers at The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Box 25, Folder 25.451.)