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...m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
...star which may prove to be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed is growing steadily brighter and of increasing importance, according to a report issued yesterday by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, as the result of observations received from several American observatories. This star, which is called Nova Herculis 1934, was discovered in England last Friday by an amateur astronomer...
...Shapley believes that this star may be of the utmost importance on account of the powerful equipment new available at American observatories for spectroscopic analysis...
...counting stars at the rate of 5,000 each day and have now completed almost half their task of classifying the estimated 10,000,000 stars of the thirteenth magnitude and above. The whole project is under the direction of Bartholomeus J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...dates, titles, and speakers for the lectures are as follows: October 22, "Atoms," Donald H. Menzel, assistant professor of Astronomy; October 24, "Planets," Dr. Gabriel G. Gillie; October 30, "Stars," Dr. Cecilia PayneGaposchin, research associate; and November 1, "Galaxies," Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...