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...Harlow Shapley, formerly of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory at Pasadena, California, whose researches on the size and structure of the stellar universe have attracted widespread attention among astronomers, has been appointed Director of the College Observatory, and thus assumes a position which has been vacant since the death of Professor E. C. Pickering...
...Mount Wilson he perfected methods of measuring star distances photometrically, and applied these methods to the problem of the distances and structures of the great star-clusters. His work has given astronomers a new perception of the size of the stellar universe, showing that in volume it is at least a thousand times larger than it was thought to be before the distances to the clusters were measured. Furthermore, Dr. Shapley has discovered that the sun, instead of being at the center of the sidereal universe, as was formerly supposed, is really several hundred quadrillion miles away from...
...Shapley has recently returned from Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, where he has been doing some important research work. The results of his work have been the formation of newer methods of determining stellar distances which are far more accurate than the old methods and which can estimate distances very much greater than was possible with the systems used before, enabling him to disprove many of the theories of earlier astronomers...
...Department of Astronomy announces a series of three illustrated lectures on Cosmogony to be given by Dr. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard College Observatory, Dr. Shapley, who came recently from Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, has made important contributions to the conception of the size of the stellar universe...
...America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing ideas in regard to the extent and constitution...