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PHILADELPHIA, April 27.
A speaker at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical society, Dr Harlow Sliapley, director of the Harvard observatory, whose theme was “The Como-Virgo Galaxies,” told of a million “milky ways,” or galaxies, within a distance of 160,000,000 light years from the earth. Measures of the brightness of the galaxies, he said, have a very definite hearing on the discussion of finiteness of the universe.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6921, 29 May 1929, Page 4
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