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Walter Baade
Born(1893-03-24)March 24, 1893
Schröttinghausen, German Empire
DiedJune 25, 1960(1960-06-25) (aged 67)
Göttingen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipGerman
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
Known forCoined the term "supernova" and "neutron star" with Fritz Zwicky
AwardsBruce Medal 1955
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsHamburg-Bergedorf Observatory, Mt. Wilson, Palomar Observatory
Doctoral studentsHalton Arp
Allan Sandage

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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Magellan Telescopes

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the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T. Clay. First light for the telescopes was on September 15, 2000 for the Baade, and September...

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Allan Sandage

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Institute of Technology; the German-born Wilson Observatory-based astronomer Walter Baade was his advisor. During this time Sandage was a graduate student assistant...

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Andromeda Galaxy

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the Milky Way. In 1943, Walter Baade was the first person to resolve stars in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy. Baade identified two distinct...

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W Virginis variable

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They were first recognized as being distinct from classical Cepheids by Walter Baade in 1942, in a study of Cepheids in the Andromeda Galaxy that proposed...

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Supernova remnant

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connection between cosmic rays and supernovas was first suggested by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934. Vitaly Ginzburg and Sergei Syrovatskii in 1964...

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Timeline of stellar astronomy

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the importance of the negative hydrogen ion for stellar opacity 1952 — Walter Baade distinguishes between Cepheid I and Cepheid II variable stars 1953 —...

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Planets beyond Neptune

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conjecture turns out to have been correct; it had been argued by astronomers Walter Baade and E.C. Bower as early as 1934. However, because Triton's mass was then...

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Galactic Center

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the area blocked the view for optical astronomy. In the early 1940s Walter Baade at Mount Wilson Observatory took advantage of wartime blackout conditions...

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History of supernova observation

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work on this new category of nova was performed during the 1930s by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky at Mount Wilson Observatory. They identified S Andromedae...

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De Stella Nova

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pp. 55–. ISBN 978-1-61530-884-2. Donald E. Osterbrock; Walter Baade (2001-10-14). Walter Baade: A Life in Astrophysics. Princeton University Press. pp...

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Messier 87

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the spinning supermassive black hole. The German-American astronomer Walter Baade found that light from the jet was plane polarized, which suggests that...

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Pulsar

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at the Pulsars.' The existence of neutron stars was first proposed by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934, when they argued that a small, dense star consisting...

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Vallis Baade

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Vallis Baade is a 203 km long sinuous valley on the Moon running south-southeast from the crater Baade and centered at 45°54′S 76°12′W / 45.9°S 76.2°W...

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Fritz Zwicky

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Walter Baade, Zwicky pioneered and promoted the use of the first Schmidt telescopes used in a mountain-top observatory in 1935. In 1934 he and Baade coined...

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1036 Ganymed

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near-Earth object of the Amor group. It was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924, and named...

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List of valleys on the Moon

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meaning "Alpine valley" None Vallis Baade 45°54′S 76°12′W / 45.9°S 76.2°W / -45.9; -76.2 203 km Walter Baade Baade Vallis Bohr 12°24′N 86°36′W / 12...

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Expansion of the universe

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imply that all galaxies are moving away from each other. Astronomer Walter Baade recalculated the size of the known universe in the 1940s, doubling the...

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Astroparticle physics

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velocities of stars in the Milky Way and other galaxies starting with Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in the 1930s, along with observed velocities of galaxies...

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Crab Pulsar

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The Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21 or Baade's Star) is a relatively young neutron star. The star is the central star in the Crab Nebula, a remnant of the supernova...

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Cepheid variable

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into different classes with very different properties. In the 1940s, Walter Baade recognized two separate populations of Cepheids (classical and type II)...

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Draco Dwarf

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from Earth and span a distance of 830 ± 100 × 570 ± 70 pc.[d] In 1961, Walter Baade and Henrietta H. Swope studied Draco Dwarf and discovered over 260 variables...

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