By Deborah Shapley, Editor and PI, Harlow Shapley Project Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was a giant of twentieth century astronomy. In 1918 he proved that our Milky Way galaxy was watch-shaped with a dense center in Sagittarius and our solar system near the edge. His displacement of Copernicus’ heliocentric universe was the foremost of many contributions…
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