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Show Every Star Put jH On a Huge Map Every star that can be found by tho jB most powerful telescope or camera lens M will be engraved on a colossal map of Hb the universe about to be completed, iH aftor many years' work, by the com- IHh bincd astronomical talent of the worlc jH Some of the stars represented, navyv never been seen by the eye of man and iuuuaui jiuvui win dc. xncy were "H caught by the photographic plate. tl Many other millions of specks, dimly made out on camera films, will not bo '1 traced on the map because they are lfl too nebulous to be authentically re- '1 corded. About 100,000,000 stars will he J shown on the map being painstakingly' 'lfl forged by the astronomers of tho B world. The completion of the map -was delayed by the world' war, the H German and Austrian scientists hav- ing previously taken a largo part in IBI the formation of the huge tracing. Nat- j jH urally, their services and their data 1 have not been available since hostlll- ties boomed. ; . Astronomers for ages have tolled ' Ml over -maps of the heavens, from the t 'j days of Ptolemy andr tho Grecian 4 sages to thoso of Copernicus, but -with i i jl unsatisfactory results, for the human I ) B eye; even aided by the primitive tokJL IH scopes of a century ago, could not IH catch near all tho myriads of stars. IH But with tho introduction and per- I fectlon of the long distance camera, I H the hopes of the astronomers woro realized, for the photographic plate, J far more sensitive to ligh.t than tho H retina of the human eye, engraves on lasting documents thousands and mil- lions of stars hitherto unknown to ' H |