Magellan, Ferdinand (1480?-1521)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3833. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Portuguese explorer, whose crew brought back from his voyages into the southern hemisphere news of the existence of what became known as the Magellanic clouds. At first, they were conceived as two fragments of the Milky Way that had somehow come loose, but now are known to be the two nearest galaxies to our own. The Magellan spacecraft to Venus commemorates his explorations....

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