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Many observations became understandable only when astronomers realized that there are huge clouds of gas and dust in interstellar space, by which the light of far-off stars is dimmed and reddened. In order to reduce our observations for this effect, we have to find how this extinction depends on wavelength; our results will also help to understand the nature of the dust.
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Sharpless, S.: 1963, in Stars and Stellar Systems, III, p. 225.
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Minnaert, M.G.J. (1969). Interstellar Extinction (L). In: Practical Work in Elementary Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3414-2_57
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