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...trick worked. The spectrum of one of the radio stars, 3C-273, turned out to be the spectrum of an object racing away from the earth at 31,000 miles per sec., one-sixth the speed of light. But only galaxies, which get their speed from the general expansion of the universe, can move that fast. The astronomers concluded that they were dealing not with a star but with an entire distant galaxy...
...there were more problems. According to the rules that govern the expanding universe, a galaxy moving at one-sixth the speed of light must be 2 billion light-years away. But how could 3C-273 be so far away and still so bright...
Greenstein and Schmidt turned to another one of the five bright radio stars. The spectrum of 3C-48, they discovered, is even more peculiar than 3C-273. Study showed that its brightly visible light has shifted so far it must come from a galaxy receding from the earth at one-third the speed of light. It must be 3.6 billion light-years away. To look like a bright star despite its enormous distance, 3C-48 must give off 100 times as much light as the entire Milky Way galaxy with its 100 billion stars...
...Spec./ 3c STEVE GRAFOS U.S. Army Heilbronn, Germany...
...annual Student Jewish Appeal has not a goal of $3000 for the University drive which ends March 8, Summer Milander 3c, chairman of the fund, announced. The money will be used for DP's Palestine, and institutions in this country. Contributions to the fund should be sent to the Hillel Foundation, 1430 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge...