KnowraWalter BaadeLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to Walter Baade, each with the reason it gives.All 8Related 8Neutron starRelated: He and Fritz Zwicky proposed neutron stars as remnants of supernovae in 1934.Galactic archaeologyRelated: His population concept helped establish that galaxies contain stars with different histories.Fritz ZwickyRelated: Baade and Zwicky jointly introduced the term “supernova” and proposed their connection to neutron stars.European Southern ObservatoryRelated: His advocacy helped inspire plans for a joint European observatory in the Southern Hemisphere.Palomar ObservatoryRelated: Baade used Palomar observations to resolve stars in distant galaxies and revise the scale of the universe.Classical Cepheid variableRelated: His recognition of distinct Cepheid populations corrected earlier distance calibrations.Allan SandageRelated: Baade’s discovery of two kinds of Cepheid variable stars changed the distance scale Sandage inherited.Dwarf elliptical galaxyRelated: Baade helped establish the distinction between compact dwarf ellipticals and diffuse dwarf spheroidals.