Word: scorpio
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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...
...thought, due to the fact that these stars are all located in constellations already known and charted,--Scorpio and Orphiuchus--, that the charts of the U. S. Naval Observatory at Washington, D. C., Will be considerably changed...
Please let Will Rogers comment on Scorpio's fate. Anyway, I note that by being born at 12 p. m. Feb. 19 I just made Charles Darwin's star and missed W. J. Bryan's by a comet's hair. Whew...