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Berlin's Illustrierte Zeitung last week got around to publishing the photograph purportedly taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there...
...whole thing was over in 30 seconds. After that only a dark cloud of smoke was visible. Royal Oak had disappeared, while Repulse listed heavily forward...
Among the newly discovered objects reported were two spiral nebulae, un-usual in that they possess no concentrated nuclei; and a Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Cetus, a new member of a class of irregularly shaped, conglomerate stellar systems...
Star photographs made at the Harvard astronomy station in South Africa reveal an unusual distribution of Cepheid variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, neighbor star system of the Milky Way. There is a "peculiar concentration" of the larger, longer-period Cepheid variable stars in regions where the star population is dense, Shapley said. Cepheids fluctuate in brightness in periods ranging from a few hours to about fifty days; their mass is four to five times that...
Shapley said that the "newly found prenomenon" of Cepheid distribution may prove to be "an indicator of gravitational potential throughout a galaxy." However, there may be another, alternative explanation of the peculiar distribution, involving the distribution of various chemical substances in the Magellanic Cloud, Shapley said. There is a possibility that the chemical distribution of the cloud is such that the large stars were found in densely populated star areas...