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Having come to know classical astronomy and our Solar System, we have reached what is perhaps the most suitable point to consider the more important astronomical and astrophysical instruments and experimental methods all together, before turning to the astrophysics of the Sun and the stars.
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Unsöld, A., Baschek, B. (2002). Radiation and Matter. In: The New Cosmos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04356-1_4
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