Cosmic Exploration · discovery
The Bending of Starlight
1919 · Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein
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- 1919
Description
Eddington photographed stars near the eclipsed Sun and found them displaced by about an arcsecond — twice the Newtonian value, and what general relativity had predicted.
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