The Method Used by Harlow Shapley in 1917 to Estimate

question 59

Multiple Choice

The method used by Harlow Shapley in 1917 to estimate the Sun's location in the Milky Way Galaxy was the measurement of the

• A) locations of globular clusters around the Galaxy.
• B) density of stars in different directions along the Milky Way.
• C) distances to open star clusters and H II regions in the disk of the Galaxy.
• D) structure of the Andromeda Galaxy and a comparison of it with the structure of the Milky Way.

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