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Yerkes telescope

JUL 01, 1964

DOI: 10.1063/1.3051716

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A 24‐inch reflecting telescope designed to map the magnetic field surrounding the Milky Way was recently installed at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory, in Williams Bay, Wis.

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Volume 17, Number 7

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