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On this day in 1893 – March 24th – German astronomer Walter Baade was born.

Baade, who worked at Mt Wilson Observatory in California for many years, defined two distinct populations of stars, and his discovery that there are two types of Cepheid variable star meant that his recalculation of the known universe doubled the size calculated by Hubble.

Mona Evans
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