Word: andromeda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Millikan's audience was Dr. Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...Millikan of California had verified the existence of cosmic rays of great penetration, Dr. Kolhoerster of Germany tracing their source to the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda, where new stars are forming...
...their source. They seemed to him to be coming at the earth in all directions. In the Swiss report of last week, however, it was stated that the greatest "penetration radiation" had been detected when the pit on Mont Monch yawned directly up at the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda. This observation fitted in with a theory that the Millikan Rays are the result of atoms being disintegrated during the formation of new stars, for the constellations named all contain spiral nebulosities (embryonic stars...
...gnawing at Orion, Hercules, Andromeda...
...other half of the prize was given tr. Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mount Wilson Observatory for measurement of the distance to two remote spiral nebulae in Andromeda and Triangulum. He found in these nebulae numbers of variable stars. Measurement of the brightness of these stars established that they were 4,000 to 8,000 times as bright as the sun. From this date, he calculated the distance from the earth to those stars as 930,000 light years,* or about five and a half quintillion (5,500,000,000,000,000,000) miles. As compared to the belief of only...