Angelo Secchi

Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest, 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.

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Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi pioneered astropohysics. In 1860 he was one of the first people to photograph the sun during an eclipse and proved that the sun’s corona was real and not just an optical illusion