Harlow Shapley, (born November 2, 1885, Nashville, Missouri, U.S. died October 20, 1972, Boulder, Colorado), American astronomer who deduced that the Sun lies near the central plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and was not at the centre but some 30,000 light-years away. In 1911 Shapley, working with results given by Henry Norris Russell, began finding the dimensions of stars in a number of binary systems from measurements of their light variation when they eclipse one another. These methods remained the standard procedure for more than 30 years. Shapley also showed that Cepheid variables cannot be star pairs that eclipse each
The new discovery of star clusters may pave the way for better analysis of star evolution in the galaxy.
What do these new star clusters mean for the future?
galaxy, a spiral galaxy, like our galaxy, the milky way, but it collided with a much smaller galaxy. when it did, we got what is called a ring galaxy, which is what you see there. inside that bright core, that is hot dust, early young baby star clusters essentially, then that outer ring is where you see star formation and star deaths. supernovas, as they re called. what stands out to me in this image is the fact that this is a galaxy that the hubbell space telescope, webb s predecessor, looked at extensively and if we can pop up a comparison, you can see just how much better the webb space telescope is. this is the new image right there, the webb space telescope image and there is the hubbell image. is there any comparison? that is nasa and the european space agency proving why this telescope was worth all of that money, all of that time. and that red there, the big