Word: sagittarius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Swope of the brightness and the period of variation of eighty-five of the variables discovered by her has enabled Dr. Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
...center of our galaxy is said to be 47,000 light years away, and lies in the constellation of Sagittarius. The nucleus which surrounds this center is 9 Kiloparsecs in diameter and 5 Kiloparsecs in thickness. There are 3,200 light years to a Kiloparsec. The method of discovering this nucleus and determining the position of the center of our galaxy will be described in a later issue of the CRIMSON...
...McAdoo to become President of the United States. I have just calculated the constellation of Mr. Calvin Coolidge. . . . Heard also the G. O. P. should do the important work until July 4, 1925, on days when the moon has passed the thirteenth degree of Cancer until the end of Sagittarius, and a landslide in votes will be for Coolidge...
...faint luminous haze visible through telescopes in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer), known to astronomers as N. G. C. 6,822, has been demonstrated by photographs taken through the Mt. Wilson 100-inch reflecting telescope (largest in the world) to be another universe of stars, like our own, it was announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, where the pictures are being studied. Our universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known...
...Observatory staff. It is a most interesting fact that nearly all novae discovered are found in the region of the Milky Way, and those recently found have appeared in the region of the Galaxy between 16 hours and 20 hours of night ascension or in the neighborhood of Sagittarius, a summer constellation which rises now a little before...