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...various astronomers who have been engaged in research along certain lines. On Tuesday afternoon, a tea was held in the Whitin Observatory at Wellesley at the invitation of Professor and Mrs. Duncan. On the same evening, there was a New Year's party given by Mr. and Mrs. Shapley at the Harvard Observatory, at which time there was a presentation of "Pinafore" by the members of the observatory staff...
...Shapley Report Important...
...climax of the whole proceedings lay in the joint reports of Professor Lundmark and Dr. Shapley. In general the reports of these men revolutionized previous conceptions of the extent of the universe...
...earth and the planets went around the sun. In 1902, a man named Kapteyn put forth the theory that the sun was the center of things and that the stars were scattered about it. This Kapteyn Universe, as it was called, was in good standing till 1917 when Dr. Shapley found that we were not the center of things after...
...them were on one side of us. This led him to believe that we were not the center of the universe, but that we were, on the contrary, off center, and that the Milky Way was so full of stars because we were looking through the center. So the Shapley system, or the galactic system, as it is called, held that we were one of countless stars which go to form a system much in the shape of a giant millstone. Determining the thickest part of the Milky Way, Dr. Shapley then determined that the star Sagiltarins was the approximate...