Halton Christian "Chip" Arp (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer. He is remembered for his 1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual-looking galaxies and presented their images.

Official website of astrophysicist Halton C. Arp - online publication of his scientific works.

Mar 17, 2025 · Halton Christian Arp (born March 21, 1927, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2013, Munich, Germany) was an American astronomer noted for challenging the theory that redshifts of quasars indicate their great distance.

Jan 9, 2014 · With the death of this gifted but contentious astronomer on December 28th, a controversial ideology concerning redshifts and the expansion of the universe has come to a quiet end.

Jan 7, 2014 · Halton C. Arp, a provocative son of American astronomy whose dogged insistence that astronomers had misread the distances to quasars cast doubt on the Big Bang theory of the universe and led...

Halton C. Arp received his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1949 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953, both cum laude. He is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, conducted Edwin Hubble's nova search in M31.

Official website of astrophysicist Halton C. Arp - online publication of his scientific works.

Nov 12, 2007 · This page illuminates the catalog of 338 peculiar galaxy views gathered by Dr. Halton C. Arp in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The Atlas is a selection of unusual or peculiar galaxies, interacting pairs or larger groups.

Jan 4, 2023 · Arp is very clear that his primary message is observational: we need a new story. He offers one such story, but encourages others to make creative proposals; we shouldn’t confine ourselves either to the traditional story (redshift = distance) or to Arp’s suggested alternative.

Halton Christian "Chip" Arp (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer. He was known for his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, published in 1966. It has many examples of interacting and merging galaxies. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory. Arp was born on March 21, 1927 in New York City.