Word: disks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milky Way, that river of vague light which flows across the night sky, is actually a disk-shaped galaxy of stars containing probably a hundred billion members, most of them bigger than the sun. Latest estimates of the Milky Way's diameter are about 100,000 light-years (one light-year is about six trillion miles). But there are bigger astronomical aggregations than galaxies. There are groups of galaxies which Harvard's Harlow Shapley, systematizer of the universe, calls super-galaxies or "super-systems" (TIME. July 29). Clusters bigger than super-galaxies he calls metagalactic clouds (metagalaxy...
...light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even...
Seventeen seconds after the second goal, Win Jameson passed the puck from a scramble in front of the Orange and Black net and Joe Patrick had no trouble in rifling the disk into the corner for the third Crimson tally of the evening. With the opening period nearly over, George Roberts scored an unassisted goal. Just before Roberts counted, however, Cook took a pass from Woodhull and surprised "Specs" Mahoney for Princeton's first score...
Across the upper part of the moon's disk one night last week flitted a ruddy shadow, tilted about eight degrees to the east. It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe. Associated Press's Science Editor Howard Blakeslee compared the sight to "a bandit with a dark cap drawn down over his forehead...
...heavy body imposed a curvature on the space around it, starlight would bend as it passed by the sun. Ordinarily stars close to the sun could not be seen. But, during the eclipse, a star which was actually at the edge of the sun's darkened disk appeared a small distance away from...