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Geeks of the Week: Harlow Shapley & Heber Curtis

Geeks of the Week: Harlow Shapley & Heber Curtis

By Joe Luna A century or so ago, the Milky Way was considered the extent of the universe, though astronomers concerned with the size of the universe faced a puzzle. They had seen clouds (“nebulae”), and observed that these nebulae had unusual properties. For one […]