https://harlowshapley.org/blog daily 1.0 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1707419326371-1B2W0PFHKQQAAKKIWPWX/MilkyWay_Atacama_2201495937_banner+SgA_+copy.png Harlow Shapley https://harlowshapley.org/blog/project-updates-june-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f4bcd1fd-caa8-4526-b15e-6745a5ec11a7/AIP-NewSite.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/52bd6daf-e0d0-4489-a403-89cc4d777757/AAS248-Logo.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/aee8b869-2b34-41d9-8388-7ba23d6bc605/Deborah+Shapley+AAS+presentation+NEW+crop1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Deborah speaking on “Shapley v Hubble” at AAS245, National Harbor, Md. Photo. Liz Landau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/34b77caf-8739-4b8f-b18a-133a8f303fd3/Zenodo+Icon.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/9d376aad-377d-4b32-9d9d-237ed2e81e43/Laughing_shapley_harlow_bw_v2-crop1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley in March 1960, during filming of Of Stars and Men. AIP/ESVA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b4469966-8bb7-415d-b430-d6f7da24d23c/Golilocks-Sone-credit-nasa.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out The Liquid Water Belt required for a planet to host life is also the Habitable Zone. Shapley published this requirement in 1953. NASA Graphic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/2e234b03-19f9-47c3-b5cb-7fec4d33eab1/Of-stars-and-men-book-cover.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/7274d431-71b0-4577-afa4-262afcc70c59/Of-Stars-and-Men-ppl-wondering-crop.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Screen from Hubley film Of Stars and Men which Shapley narrates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/bae2ad97-a70a-44de-ba63-112f0fdc5673/Deborah+Shapley+signature.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Predicting ET Life, Grant, Zenodo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2026/1/1/harlow-shapley-and-the-fight-for-civil-liberties-1946-1953 monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/09fc72ae-16a9-4591-9da4-3d6417c0bb32/%231+Title+Slide+v7.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/7f2ba07e-50d9-46c4-83cc-e666183ae916/%232+InfoSlide.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f4db3f85-6ec2-411b-9c1d-e904805efb02/%234+ChooseGvtOfficials.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/55aac6fb-abc3-4af9-b9eb-e77085e85788/%236+Rankin+Fuss+v7x.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/17d7dceb-4de9-4d27-80bc-4f55967adff6/%239+fellow-traveler-quote.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/2606f875-5cca-4e15-8765-d4290b3aa888/%2315-Peace+Conf+Shapley+Crits.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/a899c486-7ba1-4ffd-94f7-3b6a766b0509/%2316+HarvardWontFire+7.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b0c9f1cb-a1bc-41bc-89a8-30c9bd2d7496/%2317+FBI+slide.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/47afca35-0219-4476-9eae-6ca49384e724/%2319+1950-1953+MCarthy+Quote.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/353f1c6a-1dc5-4e3c-9cc9-6d6ffac7c1e6/%2320-Wrap-HSProject.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley’s Fight for Civil Liberties 1946-1953 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2025/10/25/popes-astronomer-what-the-new-yorker-missed monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1761719707673-5Y2IG0U4OS8LQTJGKI43/New%2BYorker%2BMain%2BPik%2BFB%2Bcrop.png Harlow Shapley - Pope's Astronomer: What The New Yorker Missed - Make it stand out Brother Guy J. Consolmagno, Director of the Specola Vaticana, photographed for The New Yorker profile in the July 28/Aug 4, 2025 issue. In September 2025 after 32 years as Director, Consolmagno became Director Emeritus. He remains President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. The VOF supports the Vatican Observatory Summer Schools and other programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1761719712712-B28BVN4LUP80YI9O341N/MildredShapleyMatthews_MasurskyAwd_%252793_smallfile.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Pope's Astronomer: What The New Yorker Missed - Make it stand out Mildred Shapley Matthews in 1993 when awarded Harold Masursky Award by the American Astronomical Society for meritorious service to planetary science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e7951ca9-f0dc-444b-93c6-e26444e14949/5--GailileanMoons_NasaSci.jpg Harlow Shapley - Pope's Astronomer: What The New Yorker Missed - Make it stand out This "family portrait" is a composite. The edge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shown beside its four largest moons. These famous moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei and part of Guy Consolmagno’s PhD study at the University of Arizona. Image: NASA/JPL/DLR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c590bb0c-4555-4424-950c-afcaa7fa5a49/SisterG-and-BroGuy.jpg Harlow Shapley - Pope's Astronomer: What The New Yorker Missed - Make it stand out Reception for Vatican Observatory Foundation at the Apostolic Nunciature in 2022, The 75 clerics and other guests heard Sister Raffaella Petrini FSE interview Br. Guy about the VATT telescope in Arizona. Right is Br. Guy and Deborah Shapley, P.I. of HarlowShapley.org. Sr. Petrini is now Governor (President) of the Vatican City State. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f82f8d4d-1cf1-4a18-b56d-8f126a460c37/Shapley%27s+Round+Table+Book+Cover.jpg Harlow Shapley - Pope's Astronomer: What The New Yorker Missed - Make it stand out Shapley’s Round Table cover. The title refers to his famous rotating desk at Harvard College Observatory. To buy the book see below. On this blog at Close-up: Life with the Director I featured some of Mildred’s great stories, with added context and graphics. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/project-updates-shapleys-globular-clusters-get-new-attention monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4b4205fb-d83f-403b-98c5-922b95b08bd6/Annals+of+the+Deep+Sky.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out The heart of globular cluster M 13 “seethes with at least 100,000 stars” on the cover of Annals of the Deep Sky,Vol. 11 by Jeff Kanipe. M 13 was very important in Shapley’s discovery of our Galaxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/7882bd26-96f6-46ec-9e64-d45193aefc1c/HS+Shapley+Images_Jeff+Kamipe.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Jeff Kanipe, author of the Annals of the Deep Sky series. Photo: American Astronomical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/62d303e5-e893-4e6b-8b76-db8db46b92e7/Messier-68.+ESA_Hubble%26NASA.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Globular cluster M 68 in Hydra is a “seething globe of granular light” in this Hubble/ESA image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/463530c4-b608-4ad4-8bf1-bfd088c64cbb/STScI-Webb+over+dimmed+HST+reduced+size+crop1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Unique new image of M 92 combines the JWST resolving power in infrared to reveal stars on the outer fringes with HST’s image of the dense core. Credit for HST image: NASA, ESA, Gilles Chapdelaine; JWST image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI). The combined image processing was by Richard Berry for the Harlow Shapley Project. Full image is available on request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1741285499722-FDVENN3UR4YD2UXCUUOR/d-NGC+7006+screenshot2+at+4.20.39%E2%80%AFPM.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out NGC 7006 in the constellation Delphinius was the farthest from us of Shapley’s 69 globular clusters. Credits: Phil Plait, ESA/Hubble NASA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1741285501065-PGMBYCBMG57U8XQ3ODTN/e-Arecibo-view-2018-wiki.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico in 2018. The receiving dish was 1,000 feet across. Signals were sent from the transmitter slung 492 feet above the dish, The Arecibo Message sent in 1974 was omnidirectional but pointed at globular cluster M 13 in Hercules. Photo: Wiki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/62279834-3266-48cb-9e17-c4619c037541/F_V8+Lyrae+in+M13+HHS.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Data for V-8 RRab Lyrae in M 13 “showed an abrupt period decrease around 1970,” the authors write in Acta Astronomica, Credit: G. Kopacki, et al. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/db0dcba6-a0d9-48ef-b8e3-b3989fee7ee6/3-HoraceHSmith_Portrait_HS+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Horace A. Smith, astronomer and historian. Photo: Michigan State University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0e89d03d-2dee-42fc-9ff8-690eb9d086bd/2-LeilaBulkhoraPortraitnsw_HS+Shapley+Images.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Leila Belkora, teacher and author. Credit: National Association of Science Writers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/30566b08-cf8d-443c-8074-c4b6c5038996/2A_Shapley%27s69graphic-IT.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out New HSP database on “Shapley’s 69.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4c6c9fd2-90db-4f57-96e6-8da3073e9c72/G-+VATT_red-blackbase.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) in Arizona. The red color is from the setting sun and an infrared lamp lit at night. Jesuit’s Guide p. 99. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/733aeb4e-a9f0-4aa0-b469-315bf53e8c58/BrGuy-Deborah+Shapley+-ChrisCorbally-2-3-25_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Deborah Shapley, and Fr. Chris Corbally, S.J. at reception at Apostolic Nunciature, Washington, DC. D. Shapley Photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/298716e2-a369-42cd-9e3a-1e26cde42b74/G-H.+SciencePondersReligionCover.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Cover of Shapley’s book he sent to us in Washington. He inscribed “To the P Street heathen. Harlow Shapley.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/daab345a-ab63-41b7-8ebb-b77a89b2168d/Sign+off+.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/64fc6ede-bfeb-4062-ae76-2056b548935f/Sign+off+.jpg Harlow Shapley - Project Updates: Shapley's Globular Clusters Get New Attention - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/shapleys-key-role-in-hubbles-discovery monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/6621e1fd-3812-4566-abfe-14f352f5e246/A-AstronomyNow-VollerpieceFanGraphic+.png Harlow Shapley - Astronomy Now Article on Shapley and Hubble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/6dffdd55-a75b-438f-ad6a-2c80c4dbdd3b/B-ShapleyLadderSlideCosmosv5.png Harlow Shapley - Astronomy Now Article on Shapley and Hubble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/cc56adfe-5646-4d1a-8bc9-730a601d3732/C-HubbleShapleyLadder+Cosmosv5.png Harlow Shapley - Astronomy Now Article on Shapley and Hubble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/a3551dae-a420-4a7a-a5df-2647f06fdad8/D-HS-Birthday-AstroNowPost+Montage.png Harlow Shapley - Astronomy Now Article on Shapley and Hubble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/hispanic-heritage-harvard-and-the-awakening-of-mexican-astronomy monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e4f7e1a8-c75f-4c15-80cd-e289988452d7/A.+Keel%2CBill_Tont-Wideview-0125.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Mountains 17,000 high viewed from the hill of the OANTON observatory. Beyond the town of Tonantzintla and Spanish church are two famous volcanoes. Image: Bill Keel, boa.edu (2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/8e6f891a-35b4-40f3-9245-a930fd10f8e5/HS+Hispanic+Heritage-1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Opening of OANTON Observartorio Astrofisico de Tonantzintla on February 17, 1942. Image: INAOE/OANTON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c3a6922c-9351-4ee6-a9e3-df7bd934d2ae/HS+Hispanic+Heritage-2.jpg Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Inter-American Astrophysical Conference, Mexico, 1942. Image: Harvard Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/61c51289-18d8-46a7-9b51-58083ee4180e/LL+-+Avila+Camacho+seated+crop.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Manuel Avila Camacho (1897-1955) was President of Mexico 1940-1946. Image: mexicodesconocido.com.mx https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c6f12ebb-9bad-462e-a8a7-6ae098083917/N-Tonantz-stamps-1942-IanRidpath+no+caption.jpg Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Mexican stamps honoring Tonantzintla showed images from Harvard observatory. Image: Ian Ridpath’s Oldest Astro Stamps Index, 1940-1949. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729780977103-FDGVSWL3LBELYKTQACMM/C1+Keel%2C+Tont-closeup+.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Tonantzintla OANTON (2006) Image: Bill Keel (2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729780976827-G0M7126S1JYP2ZGJCCFX/C2+Interior_Poblanarias_INAOE-FOTOS_002+crop.jpg Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Schmidt Telescope Image: Juan Carlos Sanchez Diaz / Poblanarias.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729780978023-QHU0DSFLXM5QP1TI90WZ/C3+Keel%2C+Bill+Schmidt+in+OANTON.JPG Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Schmidt Telescope Image: Bill Keel (2006) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/7205d984-163c-4113-aba4-a0cde11cfbaf/Foreign+Group+at+HCO+-+1939.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4a1e77b6-89c6-4ede-ad3e-be9e499b76ec/M+-+Luis+Erro+Portrait.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Luis Enrique Erro (1897-1955) Image: Forjadores de Educacion - YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729781257241-2EBMQIB5NVV5F4OJ7U41/F.+soyarmenio-pishmish-la-astrofisica-armenia-que-brillo-en-mexico.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Paris Marie Pismis (Pishmish) in 1945 Image: Soyarmenio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729781258347-SB1X334LUO2NAJZV2W7V/I.+IIanyan+Mag+978-At-her-desk.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out (Pismis) Pishmish in her office at UNAM where she taught for 50 years. Image: Ilanyan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729781258305-NHUS89LZD2PSY9QB5Z3U/H.+Haro_Guillermo_disccomet.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out Guillermo Haro (1913-1988) Image: unamglobal.unam.mx https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729896601157-CNY3JPGZZSTZYBSEF4RO/aa+Pismis+24+open+star+cluster-crop.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Pismis 24 star cluster Image: ESA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729896601409-PQENN9Y9DSO8J2GHPIX2/bb-+Pismis-26-NGC-6380-Hubble-crop.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Globular cluster Pismis 25 (NGC 6380) Image: Hubble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1729896602923-M31DB4QN2BW3MAOUL0WB/cc+Haro_11_WikimedCommons-crop.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Star births in blue compact Haro 11 Image: ESO VLT+Hubble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1730402861773-D8MKPCA8QI44LBGZIE46/dd%2BHerbig-Haro%2BJet%2BHH%2B24.jpg Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy Jedi-like Herbig-Haro 24 Image: Hubble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/09216602-f7ff-4dda-a9df-ec173000c0cc/Pyramid-of-the-Sun-Mulkowa.png Harlow Shapley - Hispanic Heritage: Harvard and the "Awakening” of Mexican Astronomy - Make it stand out The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotichuacán was built between AD 1 and 250 by the pre-Mayan Nahuati people. Its base is 750 feet on each side. It is 200 feet high. Its size rivals the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. Image: Mulkowa (2023) WikiCommons. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/shapley-project-updates monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b4e008c1-3bc0-4118-8fe1-4c54f126e5b8/ShapleyvHubble-Rivalry%26Dependence-MainSlide-credits.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out The main players in “Shapley v Hubble: Rivalry and Dependence” at the Cosmos Club on April 3. I thank the Club Science and Technology Committee and co-chairs Anjuli Benjamin and Steve Mackwell for hosting and organizing. (Some slides and narrative will be posted on this site.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/cd692841-1c2c-4827-a77e-ba8ef6a6a43e/SciencePhilAlliance-panel-blog-HarlowShapley.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out Read the post here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/d59fa9a0-f9ef-4f3c-acf1-45173469c3aa/MarthaBetzShapley-Portrait-dates.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/2a6e4638-a23e-4db8-859b-2ec1d95719c4/Fern+Rusk+Shapley+-Revised.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out Photo: National Gallery of Art archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/d2422021-79ec-4366-adc0-47ce3b66bded/AA+You+R+Here+T-shirt_MountWilson_Harlow_Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/6e3f2f03-b981-4698-a3e9-87114f1de7b2/Deborah+Shapley+Signature+%281%29.png Harlow Shapley - Shapley Project Updates - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/great-debate monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1fb7db12-54be-49a2-9a6b-cbba14aba3ec/National+Capital+Astronomers.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? 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See #4, #5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b825ed1d-8de5-4461-8db9-abe3bf6b5b1c/cc-What-they-didn%27t-know-Slide-%2311.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out The core of scientific inquiry includes doubt in Nemiroff and Bonnell’s description. See #6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/229184f2-c825-4b66-a4d6-182ca0532b14/d-HomerSimpsonPuzzled+Ref+%2310.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out If Homer Simpson can be puzzled, scientists can be as well! See #13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/3795d32c-9049-4f31-bbf8-4775aa79d7b1/e-Hubble+Cameo+Ref+%2314.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Hubble’s measurements showed that “island universes” were far from our Galaxy, showing Shapley’s earlier claim to be wrong. See #12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1acb627b-ae5e-4ead-89b0-12b07b4180ca/f-Adelaide+Ames+Cameo+Slide+18.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Adelaide Ames analyzed and mapped galaxies at Harvard through the 1920s. She was elected to the IAU Committee on Nebulae in 1928. Tragically, she drowned in a canoeing accident June 26, 1932. See #15-17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/5b869976-4437-4933-a240-759194e841d8/gg-JK+Polar+tan+mat.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Shapley, H._HCO Annals_88 (2)_1932_pp. 43-75. Red labels by Jeff Kanipe. See #18-#20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/458bea88-f3a4-4226-8e36-e703f2e57589/h-LeMaitre+Cameo+HCO+Ref+%2323+.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out LeMaître received little notice for having modeled in the expansion of the universe in 1920s, which he published in 1927. In 2018, the IAU voted to rename Hubble’s Law, the cornerstone definition of the expansion, the Hubble-LeMaître Law. ScienceInsider 10-28-18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/83d230be-6fab-4345-99c6-ec2aff5691e4/i-Vera+Rubin+Notices+Ref+%2327.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Astronomer Vera Rubin studied the Shapley-Ames catalog closely in 1952-53 and noticed the magnitudes of faint galaxies seems “off.” See #25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/5f8e62b1-4bd4-4b75-98c8-c5db0d7ed51d/j-HS-Skadding-Getty-crop3.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley in about the 1940s. See #30. Photo: Skadding-Getty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f0e18173-abf5-4389-8ae5-d0ecf402a24d/k-HS+Book+Galaxies+3rd+Edn.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Shapley’s influential primer Galaxies was published in 1943, 1963 and 1972. See #30. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f0fdb908-f633-4aa4-b958-d24da83e7b08/Deborah+Shapley+Presents.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Click image above to see the video of the presentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1fb7db12-54be-49a2-9a6b-cbba14aba3ec/National+Capital+Astronomers.png Harlow Shapley - Who Really Won the 'Great Debate'? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2023/9/27/banggoestheuniverse-podcast-with-deborah-shapley monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/8868fa6e-03be-44b6-aa22-ca01218aa26a/Bang%21-MBS-led-slide-3.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b933efe2-4ceb-4c83-bd45-6ebb3862e6c5/Bang%21+Goes+the+Universe+Main+Image.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - Make it stand out Video podcast (58 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uqvmJyRn5g. Audio at https://banggoestheuniverse.buzzsprout.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b2bfa3ef-b4ea-4896-86c3-9a98b7a970c2/Voller+Interviewing.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - Make it stand out “Change was so gradual,” Voller said. “It wasn’t like flipping a switch.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1697120021598-7T090H9HB4160XPHX0U7/Bang%21-MBS-led-slide-3.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/dd31828d-e00f-423f-9a46-c9d4dd67690a/Betz-4-Gens-Voller-scht.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - 4 generations of Betz women in Kansas City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/870b370b-a695-4864-ac51-de6a9e8b0615/WheatFarmVoller.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - Wheat farming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/be144ab7-2929-42a0-b1aa-da65dd2a9f50/Sandwiches+voller+Screehshot.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! Goes The Universe: Martha Shapley - Mount Wilson Astronomer - Harlow and Martha on wedding day April 15, 1914 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4002e75b-77c5-471a-bcc1-6ba4897aa2a9/Lyrae%26CamelopardalisSlide.png Harlow Shapley - Bang! 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Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Shapley’s easy-to-grasp reports of the latest developments in astronomy and physics were carried in the press. Source: newspapers.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4a12ee71-06dd-42a2-8e2a-bac464721bfa/Cecilia+Payne+Quote.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Shapley wrote fast in an easy, simple style. In the 1920s the eloquence and wit of his lectures began to be noticed. Above from Lecture Slide 13. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/fd873532-d42c-46d6-8cfe-20add9d852ca/Shapley+with+Dictaphone.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley speaking into dictaphone in his Harvard office. Lecture Slide 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/20dae556-9587-4379-b0c2-cf6f4d5744d7/Foreign+Arrival+Cartoon+1949_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Cartoon from The Nation, 1949, when Shapley made news trying to arrange “questionable” guests for a peace conference in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/58a628dd-b75b-4858-99ef-f6049b69a474/Bok+Quote+Slide+13_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Prager quote to Bok is Lecture Slide 18, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/ec62192f-ed69-47ec-9ab8-b9251cf2f13c/Bessie+Z+Jones_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Bessie Zaban Jones. Lecture Slide 16. Photo: Find-A-Grave https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/ab559645-eead-495f-a7cd-e0e63356daa0/Stanley+Miller+1952_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out From Lecture Slide 23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/5a34c70f-147d-44c9-bdc3-59a5906d0a06/Steven+J+Dick+Quote_Harlow+Shapley+and+Carl+Sagan.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out From Lecture Slide 32 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e4d52660-2607-4036-84dc-9c53ff7d10d9/Shapley+and+Drake.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley ca 1950 and Frank Drake, 1961. Lecture Slide 30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/822f5d08-399b-427b-90dc-7cedb80dca80/LAUGHING+OLDER+shapley_harlow_b1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley ca 1960 during the filming of Of Stars and Men. 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USNA Archives, Harwood Collection. Lecture Slide 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/438869f0-cb52-4775-ba6a-532e5990c8a3/Harlow+Shapley_MBS_Portrait_cleaned.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Martha Betz Shapley 1929 by Bachrach. From Shapley Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/2b0ebd11-df9f-45ba-af1c-90bd3b88d243/MWO+discovering+universe+10-5.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out October, 5th 2023 | 8:30 pm PT | YouTube Event The Observatory Celebrates the Centennial of Edwin Hubble’s Remarkable Journey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f966cfae-4ff8-45f4-b699-b318db5b7a4f/DebMtWilsonT%26T-Announcement_Mount+Wilson_Deborah+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Lecture: Shapley’s Legacies After Mount Wilson - Make it stand out Deborah Shapley’s Talk July 22, 2023 - Notice https://harlowshapley.org/blog/martha-betz-shapley monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/701d5b32-41b2-4ccf-b39b-35e36f89afa0/A_Martha+Betz+Shapley+Little+Mildred+and+Willis.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Martha Betz Shapley with Willis and Mildred, likely taken in 1918, the year Harlow Shapley’s most important papers were published. Martha authored and co-authored fourteen papers from 1915 through 1922. Photo: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0b73f6e0-5805-4bc7-9ddb-389e03dc5eee/E_Annette+Wittig_Martha+Betz+Shapley+Post.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Annette Schurmann Wittig was born in Germany in 1840. In 1923 she came to live in the home of her daughter Louise Betz. She died in 1944 at age 104. Credit: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/ca159e12-40e7-4cd2-b3d4-65b7833babe7/Martha+Betz+Harlow+Shapley+Family.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Betz Family ca 1899. Martha age 8 is the girl on far right. Girl on upper right is Annette (Nettie). L to R Mother Louise Wittig Betz holding baby Louise. L to R below Alma, Eggmont and Carl William. Credit: Betz-Wittig Genealogy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/cf41d1a5-484c-474e-b850-7c026bbaab11/Yearbook_Harlow+Shapley_Martha+Betz+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out University of Missouri Yearbook, Class of 1910. Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz entries. Credit: Harvard University Archives, Harlow Shapley Papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/7d0c46ea-9c9d-4331-9bd0-e10d1f601841/H_Harlow+Shapley+Martha+Betz+Shapley+Ice+Cream.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Martha Betz and Harlow Shapley at their wedding in Kansas City, Mo. April 15, 1914. Photo: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/26733693-87fa-4c5d-8e66-6e5b17e5ff18/Harlow+Shapley_+Hertzsprung+Russell+Diagram_MBSPost.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Hertzsprung Russell Diagram. LEFT: Nature 1914 publication of Russell’s plot of stars by size and spectral type with data compiled by Shapley 1911-1913 . The data showed most stars are in a “main sequence” band. There are other groups such as the giant red stars at upper right. RIGHT: Russell’s continued work merged with Enjar Hertzsprung’s parallel effort to became the H-R Diagram, a basic tool of astronomy. Credit: Encyclopedia Britannica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1680718822905-FTGDQNF5OPE206ONYXQB/Harlow+Shapley_Martha+Betz+Shapley+worksheet.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Worksheet table for S.S. Carinae … Martha’s handwriting, with notes on right in Gregg’s and blue note in Harlow’s handwriting. Year unknown. Credit: Harvard University Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4c934414-69a3-44a2-b405-fe4792e54f0e/I_Four+Generations+of+Betz+Women.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Four generations of Betz women. L to R: Louise Wittig Betz, Annette Wittig, Mildred Shapley, Martha Betz Shapley. Credit: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/9e5cd090-9fc7-4871-9e40-27b23115659c/Pasadena+Home+like+Shapleys.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out House in Pasadena similar to the Shapleys’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f5690f02-1d09-427a-8b0d-55af2edc2318/Harlow+Shapley_HarwoodatDesk-SmallPortrait.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Margaret Harwood as Director of Maria Mitchell Observatory ~1925. Credit Harwood Collection, USNO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/8b078b6f-ac2d-40a5-8ee7-f0bf5fe1f838/HS_10_Carnegie+Astrophys+Journal+HS%26MBS+1919.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Preprint of Harlow and Martha’s XIII and XIV papers for Carnegie Institution of Washington 1919, which Shapley kept handy on a shelf in his revolving desk. Image: Shapley Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f6e325b7-9585-4640-87ee-9c25d8694c41/Harlow+Shapley+plays+on+beach-Mildred-Willis-c+1919-AIP+G1+hs+site.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Minding the kids Harlow Shapley at the beach with Mildred (center) and Willis (left) ca. 1919. Image: Emilio Segre Visual Archives Shapley Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/30f9f8f1-7e68-4a83-8a95-44872b1c16da/Mount+Wilson+Staff_1917_Harlow+Shapley_Astronomer.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Mount Wilson Institute staff, wives and computing staff (seated) at flag-raising in front of Santa Barbara Street office April 14, 1917. Credit: Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f6baee9f-609c-4280-94bc-e2b55ce09118/Harvard+College+Observatory_paper+doll_Harlow+Shapley_Astronomer.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Harvard College Observatory women staff in paper doll pose ca. 1918. The entrance to the Residence is in the middle of this panorama photo. Credit: Harvard University Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/6e2d7ed2-cc60-4abd-a735-c66a4571284b/ResidenceStairsMainFloor_Harvard+College+Observatory_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Residence of the Director of HCO. Here Dr. and Mrs. Shapley greeted guests as they arriving at receptions and parties. Image: Harvard Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/438869f0-cb52-4775-ba6a-532e5990c8a3/Harlow+Shapley_MBS_Portrait_cleaned.jpg Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer - Make it stand out Martha Shapley as “First Lady” of HCO. Image: Bachrach ca 1929.Shapley Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682015731965-IRA3P60B1HOG0UEJHYRL/Eclipsing+Binaries_Harlow+Shapley_Martha+Shapley.gif Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682022466771-5ULON9A3IIOE4CG5VR3U/MarthaShapley_2_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682032781530-5959DNK81ZSD41S8722M/MarthaShapley_3_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer More: https://www.aavso.org/vsots_mucep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682032852856-2IOK7SX3RLMK70PE8S4W/MarthaShapley_4_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer More: https://www.aavso.org/vsots_xzcyg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682032977367-2P7L489YGAYYLYOUVGVM/MarthaShapley_5_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer Images: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1917ApJ....46...56S/abstract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682033010745-8YHNH0YH95LAI60ZUC5G/MarthaShapley_6_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer Image: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1918PASP...30..343S/abstract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1682032725982-W66ZDADORQNJNF141E5O/MarthaShapley_7_Blog_Eclipsing_Binaries.png Harlow Shapley - Martha Shapley - Astronomer https://www.harlowshapley.org https://harlowshapley.org/blog/close-up-life-with-the-director monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/016cb222-1869-4740-b903-5bda4d96a941/1_Mildred_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Mildred Shapley age 20. Betz Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/ee6812f5-5188-48bb-87ed-92e7f736027b/Harlow+Shapley+party+on+lawn+Junes_6215_.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley at lawn party with child nearby. At left is Henry Norris Russell. Shapley Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0ea9afad-986a-4855-a70d-f83b771ceed8/2+-+Kids+on+Lawn+JUue_6206_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Willis, Mildred and Alan Shapley on south lawn of the Residence, ca 1922. Shapley Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/13919a4a-95d3-4d82-8aee-dbb1181f95ed/3+A+-+AJC+full+image+orig-reworked.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Mildred Shapley, Helen Howarth, Annie Jump Cannon, Willis and Alan Shapley. Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/aa216e87-bc24-4eea-8fae-b7894856201a/Harlow+Shapley+Desk+Harvard+Observatory+Director+Astronomer.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley’s rotating desk. Harvard College Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/a339aad3-b35d-4b32-836b-225b2fb4be13/5.+ArvilleWalker_PHarem-pik+1911+closeup_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Arville D. Walker Shapley’s secretary. “In all situations she maintained a calm and solemn face.” Photo: Harvard Observatory Images Fine paper doll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0fe75ae3-1a7d-4069-84cb-8e4750b98751/HS_14_Family+Banner+v.2_b%26w.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Shapley Family Orchestra at 60 Garden Street Residence, December 1951. Martha and Lloyd Shapley are at the piano. From left: Alan Shapley and June Matthews on cello, Ralph Matthews on bass, Mildred Shapley Matthews on viola, Sarah Shapley on flute, Bruce Matthews on violin. At rear is Willis Shapley on flute. The two children are Melvin Matthews (right) and Deborah Shapley (left). Shapley Family Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/3d1b6bdd-842f-408d-837f-355864366f80/6+-+Pinafore+-+cast-caption-cut_Harlow+Shapley.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out “Observatory Pinafore” cast with the Director. Boy lower left is Willis Shapley. Girl next to him is Mildred Shapley. Boy at right is Alan Shapley. In back row woman to left of Harlow Shapley is Arville D Walker. Harvard College Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/067b8044-6a8c-4828-82a6-6abb38dc47c0/Replacement+for+7.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Images from Lowell Library Archives. Montage and caption by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/da62cc38-a24e-4aca-9b2f-a475d9cb7a28/Benjamin_Cardozo.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Benjamin N. Cardozo, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court JRank Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/280b2715-a21f-457d-ad5e-eb30bb737f64/8+-+Shapley%2C+H._HCO+Annals_88+%282%29_1932_Map+p.+64+horiz_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out One of the pair of definitive maps of the brightest galaxies published in the Shapley-Ames Catalog. Shapley, H. Annals of Harvard College Observatory. Vol_88 (2)_1932, p. 64. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0d983742-46f3-4a20-9a9d-77a1fa049c77/HS_5_Ames+Adelaide.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Adelaide Ames Harwood Collection, US Naval Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/40fa3caf-7247-43b5-966b-827f848bd4ee/9.+LeMaitre+Tech+Review+1934_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Georges LeMaitre in 1934. Technology Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1d97fd93-de40-4468-9e41-4c1b80539a45/10_HS_5_Einstein+with+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Albert Einstein with violin and Harlow Shapley, 1935. ESVA Einstein, Albert C6. OBJ Datastream.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/138b588c-fb75-4d5b-8a80-9fefc8d928f6/Resized_HS_5_Harvard_College_Observatory_Foreign_Scientists.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out The "foreign" group at HCO, 1939-astronomers, research assistants, and graduate students; left to right: top row---George Z. Dimitroff, Bulgarian; Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, English; Luigi Jacchia, Italian; second row---Donald MacRae, Canadian; Zdenek Kopal, Czech; Richard Prager, German; S. I. Gaposchkin, Russian; third row---Shirley Patterson, Canadian; Marie Paris Pishmish, Armenian-Turkish; Odon Godard, Belgian; front row, seated---Bart J. Bok, Dutch; Jaakko Tuominen, Finnish; Massaki Huruhata, Japanese; Luis Erro, Mexican. Photo and caption: Shapley’s Round Table from Shapley, Harlow Through Rugged Ways to the Stars. AIP/ESVA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/63095fec-b2c0-4ce6-8dad-1fbd3b91c2b9/Manuel_A%CC%81vila_Camacho_Wiki.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Credit: Wiki Mexican President Avila Comacho in 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e6016b5f-b4be-448d-aef1-379936f5c2bf/HS_7_Carnegie_Hall_Copernicus_400th_resized.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Copernicus quadricentennial Credit to come https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/bbba9197-f98d-4bf4-8939-74a6385a6fcb/10+D+ADH+telescope+Boyden+Obs+HCO+reworked.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out The ADH Telescope Baker-Schmidt camera began operating in 1950. http://dasch.rc.fas.harvard.edu/telescopes.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e668dbc7-c458-45e2-b124-3ed23b583162/HS_9_St_Louis_dispatch_Shapley+Charges+Gestapo+Tactics.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out St. Louis Post Dispatch November 14, 1946 reports Shapley’s and Rankin’s angry remarks after closed hearing of HUAC investigations committee. Graphic: SophiaOjha.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b13d1e86-135e-4e78-9d46-0f4ef35061bb/11+-+Nehru-leaving-HCO-HS+Harwood-USNO-22-0109-5792-Harlow+Shapley.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Prime Minister Nehru and official party depart Building D after his surprise visit to Shapley at HCO. Photo by astronomer Margaret Harwood, Harwood Collection, US Naval Observatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4a9473fa-3b5a-450f-a5c9-21e33611978a/HS_12_Book+Of+stars+and+men_.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Photo 12 Of Stars and Men, 1958 first edition,.HS’ copy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/84ad0a93-06ba-4237-a3d8-863b2370b185/C+-+Shapley-PopePiusXII-1952+smallfile.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Pope Pius XII greets Harlow Shapley after his address to the International Astronomical Union at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, September 1952. Martha Shapley is in white hat. AIP/ESVA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/dc215a8c-d6ef-4465-b6d1-583310fc8021/HS_13_Great+Man+Audience+Australia.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Audience at a Shapley lecture in Australia, 1961. Photo: Harvard University Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1bd85328-2d12-443f-8f6e-d810a281c8ed/HS_LAUGHING+OLDER+shapley_harlow_BlackAndWhite_resized.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley during preparation of film Of Stars and Men ca 1960. Photo: John Hubley. ESVA Shapley, Harlow B1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/a68316e9-7b22-4a1f-922c-fc4621b7ebd0/13+-+Sharon+buggy+orig+5+kids_reworked.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Buggy found in the Shapley’s barn in Sharon, N.H. was refurbished and enjoyed by five grandchildren. 1946. Shapley Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c39c913d-79c6-414e-a46a-6d9f319f80a2/14+-+G%26G+portrait+Sharon+1946_reworked.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Harlow and Martha Shapley at the doorway to their home in Sharon, N.H. ca. 1946. Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/176e0fcf-f684-481d-818e-f6dc507c7ae6/Owen+J+Gingerich.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Own J Gingerich Photo: https://socratesinthecity.com/guests/owen-gingerich/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/388c4d42-ac5e-4c1e-9193-7a81eba96a25/14-+EO-WILSON-DUO-TAN.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out E.O. Wilson: Left As young professor in the 1950s. Right: Displaying specimens. Credits: Harvard NARA and Takieng. Montage by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0572c280-04e5-42bd-aa00-3d3324335cc3/15+-+Mildred%2C+Don+Nicholson%2C+Jurasevich%2C+MWO+2013_Harlow+Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Mildred with Dave Jurasevich and Don Nicholson in Pasadena in 2013. Don’s father “Seth Nicholson was my father’s closest friend at Mount Wilson.” Photo: Tom Meneghini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/095b3913-e2c5-4c1d-b401-3a544d618c7c/HS_14__MildredShapleyMatthews_MasurskyAwd_%2793.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Mildred in 1993 upon receipt of the Harold Masursky Award of the American Astronomical Society. Photo: University of Arizona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f669c6ca-a040-4599-9aa6-78ceba4ed203/16+-Asteroid+878+Mildred+Orbital+View+Closeup.png Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out While looking for satellites of Jupiter in 1916, Shapley discovered a new asteroid. He and Nicholson agreed to name it Mildred. Above orbital view of Asteroid Mildred 878. Image: JPL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4c308d1d-8552-498a-948a-0c3f0c6931b4/Lloyd+Mildred+Laugh_Nobel+Reception.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Mildred with “little” brother Lloyd and her daughter June Matthews at 2012 Nobel ball. Photo Nobel Foundation. USE MY CROP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/f82f8d4d-1cf1-4a18-b56d-8f126a460c37/Shapley%27s+Round+Table+Book+Cover.jpg Harlow Shapley - Close-up: Life with the Director - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2022/2/1/lloyd-shapley-nobelist monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c7606bd6-ce5f-4871-8bc3-5d630edf9be7/Lloyd+Andrew+Ricky.JPG Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Lloyd’s grandsons Ricky and Andrew Shapley and his sons Christopher and Peter Shapley after the ceremony. Lloyd’s wife Marian Shapley died in 1997. Photo: Feng-hsi Liu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/177dcebf-6130-40f0-a188-2b37a781f0de/ShapleyChildren-June%27s_4594.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Harlow and Martha Betz Shapley’s five children about 1930. Middle names are in parentheses. Back row L to R: Mildred (Louise), Willis (Harlow), Alan (Horace). Front row L to R: Lloyd (Stowell), Carl (Betz) Photo: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/22f375bf-bea5-45e4-bb3c-661a1cadc7b7/John+Neumann.png Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out John von Neumann Photo: Atomic Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/078589d9-41e7-40dc-ad1d-61375b6dca61/David+Gale.png Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out David Gale Photo: Hist Economic Thought https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/80c54a2c-b6c5-49ba-ad83-0bb013757a5d/Alvin+E+Roth.png Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Alvin E. Roth Photo: Nyman - Wikimedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b729b913-ad11-42dc-baa5-e2ba5e6cb70d/Shapley%2C_Lloyd_%281980%29.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Lloyd Shapley at the time he won the John Von Neumann Theory Prize. Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen, Mathematisches Institut Oberwolfach (MFO). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1c2f339a-51d6-4a11-86bd-890091cfdb03/LLoyd+family+Photo+1977-2.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Lloyd Shapley enjoys a joke with his wife Marian and sons Christopher 17 and Peter 18 in 1977. Photo: Peter Shapley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/9b319082-2786-47fe-ad0e-9fe93acc2a1e/Shapley-Gale+Stable+marriage+problem+ds+graphic+dkblue.png Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Gale-Shapley algorithm. Also see Wiki article animation how a stable match is reached. Graphic: Deborah Shapley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/c636d032-9a19-4044-b715-01835f41e8b7/Two+pair+kidney+exhg+Fig1+RothNobel.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/4215464e-6310-47fe-9d1f-57f44057a594/Kidney+exhange+2+way+%3D+4+surgeres.+Roth+slide+crop.jpg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Exchange of kidneys among pairs of people requires simultaneous surgeries to avoid unethical trading or sale. Above is a 4-way exchange underway. see 10/. Images: Roth Nobel Lecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/53674feb-f4a5-4b9f-bafb-dc22569cb9ee/A+Beautiful+Mind+Cover+2.png Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out John Nash on the cover of the first (1998) edition of A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nazar. Lloyd granted her one interview notwithstanding his large influence on Nash and the field of game theory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/a341b53e-8a4a-4492-9b51-f95b82fdd88b/IMG_6151+Sharon_Family_46+duplicate.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Shapley family photo in front of the Sharon, NH home, about 1946. Lloyd Shapley is second from right. In the front row the two ladies on left are Martha Betz Shapley’s sisters visiting from Kansas City, Mo., and Martha. I am one of the babies; my cousin Mel Matthews is the other. Photo: Shapley-Matthews Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e1949db7-8615-4878-8464-d4194302756c/MBS+Piano+with+boys_adj1++smallfile.jpeg Harlow Shapley - Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist - Make it stand out Martha Betz Shapley at the piano with two sons in the Director’s Residence at 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Photo: Shapley-Matthews Colletion https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2021/11/2/harlow-shapley-unlikely-liberal monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/850dcb04-aa15-45bc-b5ae-f8248928091c/HarlowShapley-crop.jpg Harlow Shapley - Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal - Make it stand out Harlow Shapley Wiki [SIA2008-5931] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/0a2f25d3-b054-4620-b3e5-b53b9065d6fa/Underground_railroad_map_wiki.jpg Harlow Shapley - Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal - Make it stand out “Routes of the Underground Railroad,” Wikipedia, compiled by Wilbur H. Siebert, The Macmillan Company, 1898. The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad but the network of secret routes slaves traveled to seek their freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1c8005bc-e582-4294-b9f4-f553151203b0/CazenoviaConvDaguerrotype-Crop1.jpg Harlow Shapley - Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal - Make it stand out The Cazenovia Convention August 21-22, 1850 drew 2,000-3,000 people including fugitive slaves to protest Congress’ proposed federal right to capture and return fugitives in any state. Frederick Douglass is by table at viewer’s left end. Gerrit Smith stands at center. Daguerrotype: Madison County Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/e5b7a5b1-70fd-433e-9fca-69d8a248d216/FugitiveSlaves_1839+Anti-Slave+Almanac.png Harlow Shapley - Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal - Make it stand out Fugitive being captured and chained by white men. WikiMedia/ Anti-Slavery Almanac 1839. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/b280e73f-68f6-4aeb-ab4b-333c7ad8dab3/Horace+Stowell+Grave+R.Rhode.png Harlow Shapley - Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal - Make it stand out Grave of Horace Stowell (1811-1907) of Hamilton / Lebanon, New York. He is said to be buried near the Colgate University campus. Photo: Richard Rhode https://harlowshapley.org/blog/2021/6/28/my-mount-wilson-discoveries monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1627058104977-97ETPROVNHCZHQ43FPUZ/HarlowShapley_MWO_usca65085_.jpeg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out Aerial view of Mount Wilson Observatory. San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, California. QT Luong/terragalleria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624904490697-21JNP7ZVBVVD676X1R64/AA+You+R+Here+T-shirt_MountWilson_Harlow_Shapley.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out MWO noted the centennial of Shapley’s great discovery with this graphic. T-shirts are now sold out. © MWI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1627059339374-4GGK7CTQUYS8S05IQI75/buildingthe60inch_underconstruction.png Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out Mules hauling parts for the 60-inch up mountain. Photo: The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1627065063465-0SKULHWP1FSQG6FK3FET/MWO+60_+PublicViewNight+9-28-18.png Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out Public Viewing Night at 60-inch Telescope. Author photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624906683199-V6XZEUS6780UYTG5WM71/1_Image_6972e-Milky-Way-Mass+Artist_CroppedbySO.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Globular Clusters outline the Milky Way by Artist ESA / Hubble, NASA / L Calcada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624907229032-YK1PPBA39U7MZPKSIQXA/2_Envelope%2Bfor%2BHS%2BM53_IMG_4924.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Envelope for Shapley's plate of M53 Carnegie Institution for Science https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624906720997-BVG9VL68XFD6DYLRKIOS/3_HS+M53+NGC+5024_4922+crop.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Plate of M53 by Shapley Carnegie Institution for Science https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624906683468-O5Z6N21Y490QY9KWDNKN/4_m53_2004-06-18_CroppedbySO.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Modern photo of M53 Russell Croman rc-astro.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624906719312-LRTKFOY0D9UBZJD8D633/5_MWO+guestbook+AE%2CHS.jpeg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - MWO Guestbook Jan & Feb 1931 Carnegie Institution for Science https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624908891378-6BJZ27M04LSUNPG2WLCI/HS_10_Carnegie+Astrophys+Journal+HS%26MBS+1919.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Harlow and Martha B. Shapley paper, 1919. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624904721730-JWU709EZ4XQU7E2FTSP0/Deborah_Shapley_60%2522+Mount+Wilson+Observatory.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out Visiting the 60-inch telescope in daytime. Photo: Robert Anderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1627065125170-G3RIMYY035MCLL7RBNNJ/SanGabriel+Flora.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out By the road to MWO Author photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c5db5220490795c7df1062c/1624904837710-QQR13LNZSTAEXENPNTW5/Aunt+Mildred%2C+Don+Nicholson%2C+Jurasevich%2C+MWO+2013.jpg Harlow Shapley - My Mount Wilson Discoveries - Make it stand out Don Nicholson, Mildred Shapley Matthews, & Dave Jurasevich at MWO in 2013. 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