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The Magellanic Clouds - A European Southern Observatory Presentation: Principal Prospects, Current Observational and Theoretical Approaches, and Prospects for Future Research (Hardcover, 1971 ed.)
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The Magellanic Clouds - A European Southern Observatory Presentation: Principal Prospects, Current Observational and Theoretical Approaches, and Prospects for Future Research (Hardcover, 1971 ed.)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 23
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On March 28 and 29, 1969, at the occasion of the dedication of the
European Southern Observatory, some 90 astronomers from all over
the world gathered at the ESO headquarters at Santiago de Chile for
discussing problems of the Magellanic Clouds. They came from
Argentina, Australia, Chile, Mexico, South Mrica and the United
States as well as from Europe; these latter, naturally, mostly from
the member states ofESO. The choice of the subject was an obvious
one. When erecting the European Southern Observatory as a joint
effort in European astronomy, it was agreed from the beginning that
the field of research should be the southern sky, so far hardly
explored with large telescopes. Among the objects to be
investigated, the Magellanic Clouds rank highest, together with the
galactic centre region and the southern spiral structure. Being
located ten times closer than the nearest large stellar systems
accessible to northern observers, and containing a stellar
population ranging in age from the oldest down of star formation,
the Clouds provide an ideal laboratory for research on to the stage
current problems in astrophysics. Yet, most of the northern
observational astronomers were hardly acquainted with the
Magellanic Clouds; naturally, they are used to think in terms of
research projects that can be conducted at their observatories. A
survey of the status of knowledge and research on the Clouds
therefore appeared in order now that the first- medium size-
telescopes of ESO came into operation.
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