Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amazing discoveries to the layman were those announced yesterday by the University observatory at Arequipa, Peru The measurements of the Magellanic cloud show it to be a separate galaxy from ours, with an entirely new system of stars to be explored. With the comforting assurance of the existence of two galaxies of stars, we can consider these to be an indefinite number: and the Milky Way, our own galaxy, on the edge of which we occupy a rustic backwoods position is nothing more than a trifling part of the Universe. After all, the Milky Way is a finite body...
...Southern skies believed them to be "large tracts and patches of nebulosity in every stage of resolution, from light . . . to perfectly separated stars." Since his time other facts have indicated the Magellanic clouds to be another group such as the Milky Way and now Professor Bailey's work at Arequipa has fixed even more accurately man's place in the Universe...
...these figures may mean much or little, according to the point of view. At all events, the Harvard station at Arequipa has mapped out a broad field fur future exploration. The question whether the house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year away, is tenanted, is still unsettled; and now we are given a whole new system to play with, a system 15,000 light years in diameter, with hundreds of suns ten thousand times as bright as ours, and a free-for-all guessing contest as to the number of planets, invisible...
Professor Solon I. Bailey '88 of the College Observatory will sail today from New York for Peru to take charge of the University astronomical station at Arequipa. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Bailey and by Miss Annie J. Cannon of the Observatory staff...
...work of the Arequipa station, which has been somewhat reduced in scope in recent years, is expected to take on a new importance with the return of Professor Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...