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...conditions are three times as congested as those of average space, has been found by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. The cloud lies well beyond the range of all but very powerful telescopes and is located in the region of the sky that includes the southern constellations, Horologium, Roticulum, and Dorado...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book of Star Galaxies, Largest in Existence, Furnishes Excellent Evidence of Island Universes | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

...catalogue contains descriptions of 7,889 galaxies in the Horologium area, almost all of them hitherto unknown, and nearly all of them fainter than the fifteenth magnitude. It was compiled from a series of long exposure photographs taken with the Bruce telescope at the University's southern observatory in Bloomfontein, South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book of Star Galaxies, Largest in Existence, Furnishes Excellent Evidence of Island Universes | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

...catalogue of the galaxies in the Horologium area is part of the general survey of external galaxies in progress at the University. Objects are recorded according to position, brightness, diameter, form, and structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book of Star Galaxies, Largest in Existence, Furnishes Excellent Evidence of Island Universes | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

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