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Show ; Finds Spiral Nebulae Are Stellar Sy stems t Washington. Confirmation of the view that the spiral nebulae which appear in the heavens as whirling clouds, are in reality distant stellar systems, or "island "is-land universes." has been obtained ob-tained by Dr. Edwin Ilubbell of the Carnegie institution's Mount Wilson observatory, through investigations in-vestigations carried out with the observatory's powerful tele- ' scopes. . The number of spiral nebulae. j the observatory officials have re- j ported, amount to hundreds of thousands, and their apparent ' sizes range from small objects, almo.st slarlike in character, to the great nebulae in Andromeda, -: which e tends across an angle i I of three degucs In the heavens, about six times the diameter of j the fuJl moon. The investigations of Doctor Hubble were made photographically photograph-ically with the 10). -arli refl'ec-lors refl'ec-lors at the observatory. :: . --.-- x i i i |