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Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley never tires of trooping up & down the country telling people about the universe. Last week some 200 sky-lovers gathered at Detroit's Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...
Although it is but one third of a mile in diameter and is the smallest heavenly body known, the recently discovered "Delporte object" is now found to be an asteroid, or small planet, according to an announcement, made yesterday by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...
...Nothing quite like this body has ever been observed before", said Dr. Shapley, "but since such objects can be seen only when they are very near the earth and when conditions are particularly right, we cannot say but what this sort of object may be common in the solar system...
...story which Harvard's peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley described as that of "a celestial Harun al-Raschid parading through the heavens in the raiment of a beggar" was related by him last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down...
...years ago Harvard's chaos-hating Harlow Shapley was mildly disturbed by what appeared to be a lopsided condition of the universe. The star galaxies seemed to be unevenly distributed in space, more in the northern sky than in the southern. This, however, turned out to be only a small-scale irregularity, tended to disappear when larger sky areas were polled, deeper penetrations into space made, the obscuring effect of dark matter allowed for. Now the galactic distribution in the observable sphere approaches uniformity. Dr. Hubble last week compared the population density to tennis balls 50 ft. apart. This...