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The "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" was published in 1966 by Halton Arp. It became one of the most studied catalogs in the canon of cosmology, and helped us understand that galaxies collide and create amazing structures. It turned out that Arp's ideas of why the galaxies looked peculiar were incorrect, but by putting them together in a catalog, people could look at them and start wondering and thinking about what actually was going on.
And he made a catalog of just the tangled, mangled-looking galaxies.
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The "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" was published in 1966 by Halton Arp. It became one of the most studied catalogs in the canon of cosmology, and helped us understand that galaxies collide and create amazing structures. It turned out that Arp's ideas of why the galaxies looked peculiar were incorrect, but by putting them together in a catalog, people could look at them and start wondering and thinking about what actually was going on.
And he made a catalog of just the tangled, mangled-looking galaxies.
And it was called the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
And it was just - it was the catch basin of nothing that fit anything else.
And Charles, you remember, it became one of the most studied catalogs in the canon of cosmology.
Alton C. Arp. Chip Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies published in 1966.