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Shapley

[shap-lee]

noun

  1. Harlow 1885–1972, U.S. astronomer.



Shapley

/ ˈʃæplɪ /

noun

  1. Harlow. 1885–1972, US astronomer, director of the Harvard College Observatory (1922–56): noted for his work on the size and structure of the galaxy

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Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they were independent galaxies, extremely large and distant.

From Salon

“It was a need not just for us but for the local news ecosystem,” said Linda Shapley, publisher of the Colorado Community Media group, which prints more than 100,000 copies a week.

Lowell also argued that IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler trampled Biden’s due process rights by giving rounds of news interviews on the case and releasing confidential tax documents to the public.

It underpinned the research of other pioneering astronomers, including Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley, whose work in the years after World War I demolished long-held ideas about our solar system’s place in the cosmos.

Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, two IRS agents involved in Biden’s long-running criminal investigation, had by then come forward and given rounds of press interviews alleging political interference into the Biden probe.

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