It may leave the question as undecided as before, or it may compel astronomers and mathematicians to believe that there is some, law of nature undiscovered which organizes the universal flight, such as that of a gravity which is a push rather than a pull Or it may simply show, as Sir Arthur Eddington seemed to suggest, that there may be something wrong in the way the universes have been counted. Counting is the largest preoccypatjon of observatories; great and shall Meanwhile, the comparátively modest 60-inch reflector which Harvard Observatory maintains at Bloemfontein in South Africa has discerned a most remarkable congregation of stars, which have hitherto escaped ihe perception of the bigger light grasping powers of Mount Wilson's giant. Dr. Howard Shapley described it at Cambridge as an extremely faint star system of an unknown kind. It is not a globular cluster, one of those ball-like assemblages of stars which are like sentinels of our But this mechanism leaves many things unexplained.
Another aspect of the importance of counting was revealed by Dr. Howard Shapley in recording the observauons made by the lesser telescopes of the number and distribution of the distant universes, the spiral nebulae, as seen through what he calls a "galactic window," a view through an open space in our Milky Way.
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