divini was a renowned astronomer and physician, born in 1300.
divini was a renowned astronomer and physician, born in 1300.
who was a renowned astronomer and physician, born in 1300?
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he was born in arezzo and was director of the catania observatory and an astronomer at arcetri, bologna, asiago and hamburg. he studied comets, variable stars, galaxies and the evolution of the universe. an internationally renowned astronomer, he was one of the pioneers of infrared astronomy research. in 1968 he discovered through infrared analysis two galaxies, otherwise unobservable because their light emission in the visible frequencies is absorbed by the dust that fills the plane of the milky way. the two galaxies were named after him: maffei-1 (a galaxy that, if directly observable, would become one of the most visible objects in the sky) and maffei-2. the two galaxies are the main constituents of the group known as "maffei's group of galaxies 1".
paolo maffei