New Britain herald., 1926-01-21
NEW UNIVERSE IN
 SKIES IS RELATED
Chicago Professor Shows Pic.
 lures of His Discoveries

Chicago, Jan, 2l tPI-For years astronomers have speculated on whether various nebulous forma- tons in the heavens belonged to this universe or were island" uniyerses of their own, illimitable distances way.
 Some of the white patches were khoxn to be true nebulae composed of luminous gases. or star clusters nat dissolved before the telescope. Hut others puzzled, no telescope be- Ing strong enough to separate them Into their component parts, some as- tronomers suggesting that they were Hniverses Of suns so far away that hey apepared as one mass.
 Evidence that anQther universe 'rally exists is offered by pr. Edwin Hubble, in study published today 7 the University Of Chicago in the \stro- physical Journal.
 Dr. Hubble describes this universe $ containing bright and dim stars nd nebulae in heavens like our own, and offers photographs and ."finite measure ments Of the mass o' celestial bodies that compose 1t.
 He found that this external ga! Ky, similar In many ways to our own. although entirely outside of the arth "Galactic system," is 7oo,oo
 ght years away, an astronomical measurement which carries r fig tres when reduced 10 miles Ac- cord!ng 10 his computation 1t Is 1000 light years across.
 The galaxy's general appearance as described as like that of the magellanic clouds. mass Of nebu- lac like the milky way in the skies of the southern hemisphere.
 The present investigation idenu- fles N. G. C. 6S22 (the numerical lassification Of the galaxy) as an isolated system of stars and nebulae Of the same type as the magellanic clouds, although somewhat smaller and much more distant" said pr. Hubble.
 The dimensions. luminosities and densities both Of the system as a whole and of its separate numbers are of orders of magnitude which are thoroughly familiar. The dis tance is the only quantity of a new order.
 The principle of the uniformity Of nature seems 10 rule undisturbed in this remote region of space. It Is matter of considerable importance that familiar relations are found to he consistent when applied 10 the first system definitely. assigned to the regions outside the Galactic system."
 Dr. Hubble made his observations at T. NJ. Wilson observatory, where many important astronomical re- searches haves been carried on. Pro. ;ossOr E. E. Barnard, who was on he stac of the Yerkes observatory ot the University of Chicago until his death in 1923, first saw the gal aXy in 1884, apparently with his own hve-inch. refractipg. telescope. He described oit as very faint and stated somewhat later that it was seen with difficulty. The next year he examined 1t with a six-inch tele- scope and comet eye piece and said that it was fairly conspicuous, large, round and rather dense and even ill it's light.
 The days news also brought word "t another astronomical find. Har- ward college observatory announced hat comet of the eleventh magni- ,ude in the constellation Hydra had been discovered at Cape Town, south Africa. .o -. ....
 A meteor, obserycHtht residents of Illinois and Missourtiats~y Tuesday, as found 10 have fallen on q farm ;.@ar Palmyra, Mo. Two men who were 30" yards from the falling oh. eot, said it made a hole in the round four feet in diameter.