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...telescopes in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer), known to astronomers as N. G. C. 6,822, has been demonstrated by photographs taken through the Mt. Wilson 100-inch reflecting telescope (largest in the world) to be another universe of stars, like our own, it was announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, where the pictures are being studied. Our universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed...
...discoveries of Professor Harlow Shapley direct attention to that indescribably enormous void which exists outside and around the comparatively modest solar system of which the earth is one of the lesser planets. Man has always been extremely egotistical in his consideration of the universe; for centuries it was popularly supposed that the earth was the largest, and in fact the only independent body. The sun and moon, mere lamps for the convenience of humanity, passed round and under the earth, sometimes through great caverns and archways, sometimes between the legs of a giant turtle, on whose back rested a huge...
...constellation Aquarius. The cablegram did not state the magnitude of the comet but if it attains any great brilliance it will be observable in Cambridge on clear nights, for the constellation Aquarius is on the meridian, due south, at 6 o'clock in the evening. Professor Harlow Shapley states that further details, including the magnitude of the comet, will be reported from South Africa within the next...
Professor Shapley's talk will open this evening's program. He has been director of the University Observatory for many years and did astronomical work at Mt. Wilson before coming to the University. He was one of the three speakers at the science symposium on "The Origin of Life" last month in Emerson Hall, his particular subject being "Life Throughout the Universe...
Approximately 600 attended last evening's symposium. Professor Harlow Shapley of the University Observatory stated that a third symposium was being arranged for the latter part of February. No subject had been set, but he suggested possibilities in "Fire", "Mob", "Food", and "Light...