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Angelo Secchi
*1818 in Reggio nell’Emilia
+1878 in Rome
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Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ was an Italian astronomer.
He was Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years.
He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
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