Angelo Secchi

✶June 18, 1818

†February 26, 1878

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Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University 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.

Italian astronomer

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Biography from the article Angelo Secchi on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.