Abstract

Synchrotron radiation is the most important emission process in astrophysics, but it was a long and difficult road to make it acceptable to astronomers who were used to positional astronomy, stellar interiors and, at most, thermal emission from the interstellar medium. The detection of radio waves of extraterrestrial origin by Karl Jansky in 1933 was widely publicized by the daily press but not taken up seriously by professional astronomers.

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