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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...
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...
...leading astronomers is wide-spread. Under his direction the Observatory greatly widened its scope, until it had built up a system of correspondence with observatories and private astronomers all over the world through which discoveries and observations were compared and verified. He established the Observatory's auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru, and devised many new methods of astronomical photography...
...brightness of the stars has occupied a large part of the time of the Observatory for thirty years. In this time, more than two million measurements were made of some 80,000 stars. In carrying on this work, a stations has been maintained in the southern hemisphere, at Arequipa, Peru, and the stars in that portion of the heavens have been observed by the same system as that used here in the northern hemisphere. As a result of the work of these two stations, a scale of magnitudes has now been established and accepted by international consent...