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Around the year 2000, there are more astronomers active worldwide than ever lived before 1950, and new methods and instruments have never been developed at a rapid pace. No wonder that by far the most revolutionary discoveries in astronomy date from recent decades. That is not a distorted view of history but a hard fact; as a scientific discipline, astronomy is currently undergoing faster growth and development than ever before.
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Schilling, G. (2011). 1958 - 2008 Revolutionary Discoveries in a Mysterious Universe. In: Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7811-0_5
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