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...Harlow Shapley, Piano Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard Observatory, revealed today the censorship troubles experienced by astronomers. Radio and telegraph messages must be carefully worded to avoid any appearance of hidden or subversive meaning...
...reference to the communications between Cambridge and the big Harvard observatory at Bloomfontein, South Africa, Shapley emphasized the fact that the astronomers must take great care with the language of their radio messages...
Despite the hindrances of the war and various censorships, Shapley mentioned, telegraphic communications during the year have reported astronomical work from Russia, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Rumania, Demnark, and Argentina. Cablegrams to Europe are sent through the observatory at Lund, Sweden...
...partner in the project. The tests are so tough that the 300 who get honorable mention each year are automatically assured college scholarships. College offers have ranged up to $10,000 to a prizewinner. At last week's end, the judges, headed by famed Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, picked as the best of the 1944 field...
...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...