Word: prenomenon
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Shapley said that the "newly found prenomenon" of Cepheid distribution may prove to be "an indicator of gravitational potential throughout a galaxy." However, there may be another, alternative explanation of the peculiar distribution, involving the distribution of various chemical substances in the Magellanic Cloud, Shapley said. There is a possibility that the chemical distribution of the cloud is such that the large stars were found in densely populated star areas...
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