Allan Sandage’s last paper unravels 100-year-old astronomical mystery
Pasadena, CA— Carnegie’s Allan Sandage, who died in 2010, was a tremendously influential figure in the field of astronomy. His final paper, published posthumously, focuses on unraveling a surprising historical mystery related to one of his own seminal discoveries. While preparing a centennial history of the Carnegie Observatories in the early 2000s, Sandage came across …