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Víctor Manuel Blanco

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Puerto Rican astronomer

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#2759
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#748
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Astronomy
#287
World Rank
#598
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#159
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According to Wikipedia, Víctor Manuel Blanco was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered Blanco 1, a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time. In 1995, the 4-meter telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Víctor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m."

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