Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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Abbreviation for the series of fundamental star catalogues published in Germany since 1907. The current version is FK5, published in 1988.
See also: fundamental catalogue.
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