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John C. Brown, Concord, New Hampshire; Charles T. Lawrence, Manchester, New Hampshire; Henry E. Messier, Taunton; Norman S. Simmons, Mount Vernon, New York; Lester H. Sablow, Mount Vernon, New York; William E. Wood, Legan, Utah; Stephen E. Thorne, Jr., Schuylerville, New York; Vincent P. Marran, Jr., Holyoke; Samuel I. Blum, New Haven, Connecticut; Richard D. Garrett, Glens Falls, New York; Donald W. Parsons, Scituate; Harold K. Terry Bahama, North Carolina...
...island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy was measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last as a crown prince of the cosmos, third largest among known spiral nebulae, inferior only to long, loose Messier 33 and the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Because of its nearness Dr. Shapley put it in the local supergalaxy which includes the Milky Way, Messier 33, the Andromeda nebula, the Large and Small Clouds of Magellan...
...summary: BRADFORD HARVARD Szulik, g. g., Briggs, Wallace Singleton, l.f.b. r.f.b., Fuller Leahy, r.f.b. l.f.b., Linda, Engle, Scott, Haskel Greaves, l.h.b. r.h.b., Rickard, Malone, Johnson Aulisio, c.h.b. c.h.b., Scott Crowley, r.h.b. l.h.b., Clark Kosiba, Kershaw, Barry, l.o.f. r.o.f., Popper, Bell Riley, Koczera, Messier, l.i.f. r.i.f., Leeman Edmonson, c.f. c.f., Fraley Jasionek, r.i.f. l.i.f., Dawson Kershaw, Barry, r.o.f. l.o.f., Knox, Johnson...
Another telegram received at the Observatory from the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, announces the discovery of a new star by Lampland on May 5 in the great spiral nebula Messier 83. The nova was roughly of 14th magnitude, which indicates that it would be visible only with a powerful telescope...
...Shapley's studies of the famous star-cluster in Hercules known as "Messier 13" have proved that this cluster has a diameter of more than two and a half quadrillion miles, and contains probably more than fifty thousand stars, each of them intrinsically brighter than the sun. His researches have also played a large part in establishing the fact that the great star-clusters are found only at immense distances from the plane of the galaxy, or Milky Way, but appear to be falling into it. Dr. Shapley's hypothesis is that the Milky Way itself may be composed...