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...Bailey G. '88, Philips Professor of Astronomy, discusses "The Comparison of a Milky Way Field with one at the South Galactic Pole", and gives some "Notes on the Structure of the Milky Way". The photographs upon which the article is based were made at the College Observatory, Arequipa, Peru, with a 24-inch Bruce photographic telescope...
...vagaries of New England weather since 1885--a task which proves them to be confirmed optimists. More constant, one might think, would be the lives of those who watch the fixed stars, but the announcement recently made of the discovery of 850 new nebulae by the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa, Peru, dispels that impression. That and the other station at Mandeville, Jamaica, in their observations of the Southern nebulae are filling a wide gap in earlier astronomy. From the central Observatory on the outskirts of Cambridge bulletins and plates of the discoveries are distributed...
...photographs recently taken here with others taken 31 years ago, when the Observatory was just beginning its task of preserving a photographic history of the entire sky. Since that time a "sky patrol" has been kept without interruption at Cambridge, supplemented by photographs taken at the station at Arequipa, Peru, and the history of the stars down to the eleventh magnitude has been written by the stars themselves on over a quarter of a million photographic plates weighing in all 140 tons...
...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...