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Halton Christian Arp was an American astronomer quite unlike any other. His lifetime of work cataloging astronomical curiosities continues to provide a valuable resource for modern researchers, although at one time his theories caused quite an upset in the astronomical community. The resulting debate was, for a time, even recognized as a potential challenge to long-held theories about our universe that included the Big Bang, the event which marks the beginning of the universe as we know it. Born in 1927, Arp received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University at age 22 and went on to complete his Ph.D. at Caltech four years later. Almost immediately following his graduation, he became a Fellow of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, where he began research at the Mount Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory, where he would eventually become a staff member after a brief stint at Indiana University in the middle 1950s. Arp would remain there for close to three decades, whe

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