. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 37 comprehensive cosmological scheme of Dr. Harlow Shapley. Since the opening of the century, various new methods of determining the distances of stars have Dr. W. S. Adams, at Mount Wilson, found some years ago that the intensities of certain lines in stellar spectra depend on the absolute luminosity of the stars, and as a result ho has been enabled to measure. THE OK THE IN THE DIRECTION" OF SERPENS AND SAGITTARIUS. (From a pkolograph by Pro/essor .Vax Wo!f.) been devised ; and in this way it is now possible to the distances of hundre
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 37 comprehensive cosmological scheme of Dr. Harlow Shapley. Since the opening of the century, various new methods of determining the distances of stars have Dr. W. S. Adams, at Mount Wilson, found some years ago that the intensities of certain lines in stellar spectra depend on the absolute luminosity of the stars, and as a result ho has been enabled to measure. THE OK THE IN THE DIRECTION" OF SERPENS AND SAGITTARIUS. (From a pkolograph by Pro/essor .Vax Wo!f.) been devised ; and in this way it is now possible to the distances of hundreds of stars by the spectro- speak with some degree of confidence of the scale on scope, and thus to add enormously to our knowledge which the universe is built. In the first place, Kapteyn, of exact stellar distances. Thirdly, Professor H. N. as early as 1901, indicated the possibility of ascertain- Russell, of Princeton, from his study of " eclipsing- ing the mean paraUaxes of groups of stars. Secondly, variable " stars, was able to ascertain the absolute. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London [etc. ] Professional and Industrial Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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