Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplishments of the "perfusion pump" designed with his help by Colonel Charles Lindbergh (TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) in which dozens of different organs have now been kept alive, including thyroids, parathyroids, nerve ganglions, salivary and mammary glands, livers, spleens, kidneys, lungs, and even cancerous tumors. Harvard's Harlow Shapley described four new swarms of star-galaxies or island universes, each galaxy containing billions of stars-a discovery which may bear on the agitated question of whether the all-embracing Universe is expanding or not. Grey old Ernest W. Brown, professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale and a famed authority...
...discovered a gigantic cluster of stars in the southern sky, which apparently belongs to no known class of cosmic systems, and which may thus reveal the existence of an entirely new group of star systems in the universe, it was reported today in the Harvard Observatory Bulletin by Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory...
Despite its vast size, including thousands of individual stars, and stretching out 2 degrees in the sky, the group has never before been seen by astronomers because of its faintness, Shapley said...
...conjectures advanced as to the probable nature of the cluster, Shapley said the evidence so far favors the assumption that the stars may have an absolute magnitude of -1.5, comparable to that of the brightest stars in the globular star clusters. If that is the case, it can be definitely established only when variable stars have been found in the group, then the cluster would be about 250,000 light years from the earth, and would measure about 6,500 light years in diameter...
...assumptions, however, the Sculptor cluster is sufficiently different from any other known star systems to warrant the belief that it represents a hitherto undisclosed classification, Dr. Shapley said...