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...giant star clusters first found by the Blue Hills Observatory last spring have at last been identified, with great importance to astronomical research, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Blue Hills Observatory, revealed in Fort Davis, Texas, yesterday...
Professor Shapley said astronomers attach much importance to the fact that the objects form an "Intermediate" type, midway between the ordinary spheroidal galaxy and the ordinary globular cluster...
Professor Shapley spoke yesterday morning before a symposiumn of twenty leading astronomers, assembled at the dedication ceremonies of the new 82-inch reflector of the McDonald Observatory. Professor Shapley's paper dealt with the use of variable stars in studying structure and dimensions of stellar systems...
Probably these systems are not uncommon in the universe, but have been hidden from man through difficulty of observation, Professor Shapley said...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, will set an chairman of a scientific conference to be held today in Washington, D. C. on the question of "Princeton Measurement of Solar Radium...