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Strong evidence for the existence of a dense cloud of island universes, where conditions are three times as congested as those of average space, has been found by Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory. The cloud lies well beyond the range of all but very powerful telescopes and is located in the region of the sky that includes the southern constellations, Horologium, Roticulum, and Dorado...
Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House, has been elected a member of the Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He replaces Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, who was forced to resign because of his duties on the Tercentenary staff...
...Shapley was president of the Commission on Nebulae and Star Clusters, celestial departments of which he is a consummate master. He reported and commended surveys of galaxies of stars beyond the Milky Way ("island universes") undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years...
Thus Harlow Shapley, now about halfway along in his detailed census of the all-embracing Universe, was able to trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes...
...Only the first six magnitudes are visible to the naked eye. Limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope is the 20th magnitude. †Brother John is now Professor John Shapley, Chairman of University of Chicago's Department...