SHAPLEY IS DISCOVERER OF NEW GIANT STARS

Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, announced yesterday before the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences the discovery of new stars which are 40,000 times as brilliant as the sun, and have circumferences of 186,000,000 miles.

Dr. Shapley described these stars in the course of his discussion on explorations in space which may facilitate the determination of its limits, and throw new light on mathematical theories about its nature. He explained that these new stars were discovered during a census being taken at the Harvard observatory of the thousands of remote galaxies which serve as distant "mile posts" in space, and by the aid of which Dr. Shapley is seeking new knowledge of the stellar universe.

Dr. Shapley concluded his discussion by saying that, since the more distant galaxies do not seem to be evenly distributed in space, mathematical theories concerning the universe may be affected by these new discoveries.