Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the eclipse will not be total in Cambridge," he continued, "we are cooperating with the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Island, which lies in the path of the total eclipse. Two of us expect to go there, while Professor Shapley will travel to an observatory in the western part of the state or in eastern New York...
...annual reception to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to be held this evening in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock. Professor Harlow Shapley will deliver an address in addition to several other brief talks by other speakers...
...concluding speech of the afternoon will be delivered by Professor Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, who will speak on "Stars and Protoplasm...
...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. The cluster was first observed...
...discoveries of Professor Harlow Shapley direct attention to that indescribably enormous void which exists outside and around the comparatively modest solar system of which the earth is one of the lesser planets. Man has always been extremely egotistical in his consideration of the universe; for centuries it was popularly supposed that the earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge...