I n the late 1930s, astronomer Harlow Shapley stared up at the sky and noticed something extraordinary — an enormous cloud of ...
Initially identified by the astronomer Harlow Shapley in the 1930s as a “cloud” in the constellation Centaurus, this ...
Shapley came from a farming background in Nashville, Missouri. He began his career as a crime reporter on the *Daily Sun* of a small Kansas town when he was 16. He entered the University of Missouri ...