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Shapley   /ʃˈæpli/   Listen
Shapley

noun
1.
United States astronomer (1885-1972).  Synonym: Harlow Shapley.





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... stars have been photographed, and the boundaries of the stellar universe have been pushed far into space, but have not been attained. Globular star clusters, containing tens of thousands of stars, are on so great a scale (according to Shapley) that light, travelling at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, may take 500 years to cross one of them, while the most distant of these objects may be more than 200,000 light-years from the earth. The spiral nebulae, more than a ...
— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale
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Words linked to "Shapley" :   stargazer, uranologist, astronomer


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