Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bond Astronomical Club, of which Shapley is one of the three counsellors, is headed by Professor W. R. Ransom, of Tufts College, and meets periodically at the Harvard Observatory. It was founded for the purpose of bringing amateur study to bear upon the problems of modern stellar science, and consists of prominent professional and amateur scientists. Its rapid growth was one of the leading causes for the recently announced annex to the main section of the University plant, since existing accommodations are proving too small for the frequent meetings of the club...
Jeans discussed modern theories of matter and how the knowledge acquired in the last twenty years indicates that the source of stellar radiation must be matter itself. He talked fully half of the time upon the much discussed cosmic radiation and showed how calculations of its energy corresponded with the energy that must result from the annihilation of hydrogen and helium atoms...
...that Sir James could see at first hand the "red shift" (lengthening rays of light) which Dr. Hubble has observed through the Mount Wilson telescopes. Sir James has calculated that the Universe is expanding at a tremendous rate and in some far future eon will disintegrate. The lengthening of stellar rays seems to prove his thesis, which is the opposite of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan...
Largely due to the puzzling delivery of Gilligan, St. Anselm's stellar moundsman, the schoolboy team gained a 5 to 1 victory over the Harvard Seconds Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...theories about its nature. He explained that these new stars were discovered during a census being taken at the Harvard observatory of the thousands of remote galaxies which serve as distant "mile posts" in space, and by the aid of which Dr. Shapley is seeking new knowledge of the stellar universe...