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Revision of the distances of 30 globular clusters has produced more reliable determinations of the candle-powers of such star-clusters. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, announced at the observatory Thursday night...
...some abnormal clusters have luminosities between 1,000 and 400,000 times the sun's luminosity." Dr. Shapley said. "The nuclei of two well-known spiral galaxies are shown to have luminosities within this same interval. Since the nuclei also have forms and stellar compositions similar to those of globular clusters an evolutionary connection between the two major types of large stellar systems is suggested...
Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
...travels around the center of the Milky Way at 109 miles per second, i.e., 36% slower than astronomers formerly computed (Nicholas U. Mayall of the University of California)-if the far-off globular star clusters, against which he measured the Sun's motion, are themselves motionless. Mayall also confirmed "earlier evidence that our entire Milky Way is in rapid rotation around the distant center of Sagittarius." But he now suspects that the entire Milky Way may weigh only half as much as observers have believed. Sighed a New York Times headline: "Earth's Significance Diminishes...
Patrick Scanlon, William Cahill and Peter Roddy, tenders of Tuskar Light, last week saw a shiny, globular object float into the area swept by the light's beam. It was a mine. Slowly the waves carried it toward the rock. The three marooned men banked on the chance that tides might carry the mine to one side, but each wave closed the gap, a few inches at a time...