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4 unusual facts about Harlow Shapley


Leslie C. Peltier Award

The award is named in honor of Leslie Peltier, an amateur astronomer from Delphos, Ohio, who Harlow Shapley described as "the world's greatest nonprofessional astronomer".

Of Stars and Men

Of Stars and Men is a 1964 animated film from the Hubley family of animators, based on the 1959 book of the same name by astronomer Harlow Shapley, who also narrates.

Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class

From 1927–1929, Harlow Shapley and Helen Sawyer Hogg began categorizing clusters according to the degree of concentration the system has toward the core using this scale.

Star cluster

In 1917, the astronomer Harlow Shapley was able to estimate the Sun's distance from the galactic centre based on the distribution of globular clusters; previously the Sun's location within the Milky Way was by no means well established.



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