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SOME months ago, an extremely faint, widely-extended stellar system in the constellation Sculptor was reported from the Harvard Observatory1. In many respects it appeared to be unlike any known stellar organization. The finding more recently of a similar system in Fornax, on photographs made With the telescopes at the southern station of the Observatory, suggests that a description of these objects may be of general interest.
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SHAPLEY, H. Two Stellar Systems of a New Kind. Nature 142, 715–716 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142715b0
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