Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naked arm of morn stretched through the sky...
During the past six months six new stars or "novae" have been discovered at the Harvard College Observatory. These interesting objects have been found by comparing photographic plates taken at the Observatory recently with other plates of the same region of the sky taken at earlier dates. In this way the appearance of any new object or the sudden brightening of a previously faint star is rendered conspicuous. The remarkable results that have already been obtained since Professor Bailey instituted the systematic search of the Harvard plates of the Milky Way region is another instance of the valuable policy...