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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 30, 1951
'Big Schmidt' Reveals Stars As Numerous As The Sands
How many stars are there in the night sky? A thousand? A million? A billion? A billion billion?
Since the beginning of his sojourn on earth man has marveled at the sky on clear nights and wondered just how many stars there might be in the heavens.
One of the interesting products of the National Geographic society-Palomar Observatory Sky survey now under way in southern California will be a closer approximation of the number of heavenly bodies which populate the universe.
The survey, through the magic of the 48-inch "Big Schmidt" telescope. will number the stars and systems out to a distance of 350 million light years.
Glimpses of even more distant stellar systems can be seen beyond the limits of the 48-inch Schmidt through the 200-inch Hale telescope also on Palomar mountain.
Although the survey will not be finished until 1953 or 1954, Dr. Albert G. Wilson, who is in charge of the observational program, already has intimations of the size of the universe as it can be photographed
through the Big Schmidt.
Our own Milky Way galaxy of which the earth is a tiny part and no star at all—is made up of between 200 and 300 billion stars. The sun is one of those stars, medium size.
"It's easy to remember how many stars are in the Milky Way," Wilson says with a broad smile, "just about as many as there are dollars in the national debt."
Out beyond the Milky Way are many millions of star systems called extra-galactic nebulae. They move through the heavens to the observational limits of the greatest telescopes. Beyond that limit they could go on forever, astronomers say.
There may well be over a billion such systems, some of them as big or bigger than the Milky Way system with its many billion suns. The final figure on how many, if it could be computed, would be so large as to be meaningless.
KU Band Marks 44th Anniversary
By JAMES L. POWERS
The colorful University of Kansas band, which will perform during the halftime of the Missouri-Kansas football game, is now in its 44th year.
It is under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra. Mr. Wiley, who has become a permanent fixture at the University, came here from the state of Oklahoma in 1934, where he led the Phillips university band to national recognition.
The snappy 98-piece marching band will take the field Saturday along with the University of Missouri band for the playing of the national anthem.
The band, along with the Jay Janes and Red Peppers, will form a giant heart for the Homecoming queen coronation. Fifty servicemen will form an aisle at the north end of the field, where the queen's party will proceed.
Under Mr. Wiley's direction, the organization has prospered and has gained considerable recognition across the nation. Included in its long list of accomplishments are trips to Washington, D.C., and the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.
The band's performance at the Orange Bowl was acclaimed by Florida newspapers in January,
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Similar praises were given after the band's appearance in Washington, D.C., in 1938. The group was heralded by one New York newspaper as the "greatest band ever to
The 1951 band, decked out in bright red and blue uniforms, is made up of 87 men and 27 women. Its first formal appearance of the year was at the 109th All-Music Vespers, Sunday, Nov. 18.
It has appeared on two other occasions this year at all-student convocations, besides faithful showings at University football games.
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