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With 14 associates of the department of Astronomy, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory, attended two international conferences this summer and in two lectures maintained the reputation this college has of being the foremost in this hemisphere in astronomical research...
...meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 3 to 10, papers were delivered by three men from Harvard. Dr. Shapley spoke on "The Distribution of Galaxies and the Absorption of Light in space." He confirmed previous indications that our own discshaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by an immense, low-density globe of scattered stars...
...Shapley's Discovery...
...conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge, England, from August 17 to 23, Dr. Shapley presented a second paper on "The Nature of the Inner Metagalaxy." In this talk he reported the discovery by Harvard of a conspicuous irregularity in the distribution of galaxies, or island universes, in the southern sky. This discovery, he said, is of fundamental importance, for, although it does not prove the theory that the universe is expanding, it eliminates conflicting theories based on counts of galaxies...
...meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm last week, Dr. Shapley reported on 2,000 Cepheid variables (giant stars which fluctuate regularly in brightness) at considerable distances from the Milky Way's central plane. These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter to about 80,000 light-years.** The diameter across the disk is put at 100,000 lightyears. Thus, the flattish lens of the Milky Way is enclosed in a globe of stars, and the galaxy's total shape resembles a pumpkin...