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Stellar Evolution and the Expanding Universe

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THEORIES of the expanding universe have all been constructed in accordance with the following data :

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Hoyle, F. Stellar Evolution and the Expanding Universe. Nature 163, 196–198 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163196a0

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