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Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist...

of Centaurus. It is 650 million light-years away (z=0.046). In 1930, Harlow Shapley and his colleagues at the Harvard College Observatory started a survey...

Harbor Harlow Shapley (1885–1972), American astronomer, married to Martha Martha Betz Shapley (1890–1981), American astronomer, married to Harlow Mildred...

" Lloyd Shapley was born on June 2, 1923, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the sons of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley, both from...

scale. This became known as the Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class. Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer (October 1965). "Harlow Shapley and Globular Clusters". Publications...

binary system. However, in 1914, Harlow Shapley demonstrated that this idea should be abandoned. Two years later, Shapley and others had discovered that...

Supergalaxy" in 1953, which he changed to "Local Supercluster" (LSC) in 1958. Harlow Shapley, in his 1959 book Of Stars and Men, suggested the term Metagalaxy. Debate...

called the Shapley–Curtis Debate, was held on 26 April 1920 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber...

daughter of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley; her father named the asteroid 878 Mildred for her. Mildred Shapley, one of five siblings...

−10.0. List of Messier objects Omega Centauri Mayall II Palomar 12 Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927). "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...

Shapley is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southern edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American astronomer Harlow Shapley. It was previously...

(333,000 km), or approximately 0.24 R☉. In 1951, American astronomer Harlow Shapley announced that Proxima Centauri is a flare star. Examination of past...

first 28 being identified as early as 1919–20 by American astronomer Harlow Shapley. Most of the variables are of type RR Lyrae, or periodic variables....

However, this abnormality is explained in an article by Marín-Franch. Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927). "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...

SMC by Henrietta Leavitt. Recalibration of the Cepheid scales allowed Harlow Shapley to refine the measurement, and these were again revised in 1952 following...

telescope Map showing the location of M107 List of Messier objects Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...

2MASS; wide angle Map showing location of M28 List of Messier objects Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...

astronomical objects List of Messier objects New General Catalogue Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...

University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-521-25548-6. Cannon, Annie Jump; Shapley, Harlow (1937). "The Henry Draper charts of stellar spectra". Annals of Harvard...

Map showing location of M56 (Roberto Mura) List of Messier objects Shapley, Harlow; Sawyer, Helen B. (August 1927), "A Classification of Globular Clusters"...