Word: shapley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revision of the distances of 30 globular clusters has produced more reliable determinations of the candle-powers of such star-clusters. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, announced at the observatory Thursday night...
...found that all except some abnormal clusters have luminosities between 1,000 and 400,000 times the sun's luminosity." Dr. Shapley said. "The nuclei of two well-known spiral galaxies are shown to have luminosities within this same interval. Since the nuclei also have forms and stellar compositions similar to those of globular clusters an evolutionary connection between the two major types of large stellar systems is suggested...
...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...
...Foundation members include such famed scholars as Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Yale's Geographer Ellsworth Huntington, Columbia's Economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott...
...nation-wide program of scientific demonstrations will be guided by Dr. Shapley and the committee, with academic exercises and lectures honoring Copernicus culminating at a meeting in Carnezle Ball, New York, where Jan Clechanowakl, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to this country, will take part in the program...