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...accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
...scan slowly, gathering details one by one. As a radio telescope's beam (its field of sensitivity) moves across the sky, the radio waves collected by the dish are focused on an antenna and detected as an extremely feeble electrical current. This current is amplified by intricate electronic apparatus until it is strong enough to move a finely balanced pen and draw a wiggly line on a strip of paper. Small wiggles mean little or nothing, but a good-sized bulge means that some object deep in space is sending radio waves down the telescope's beam...
...narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia, and at Cambridge University. England, such intricate apparatus record information on punched tape and feed it into electronic computers for analysis. They have an effective beam so slender that it can distinguish objects many billion light-years distant in space. The most complex setups of all use two dishes scores of miles apart, feeding their information by microwave...
Divided Authority. The present Communist Party organization, complained Khrushchev in a 5½-hour speech, is "a drag" on production. To stop the drag, he proposed still another major reorganization, this one to divide the entire party apparatus and each of the Soviet Union's 15 federated republics into two parallel chains of command. One set of committees will supervise agriculture; the other will supervise industry. This runs counter to Communist dogma that divisions between city and country should be erased, but Khrushchev obviously hopes that it will make for greater efficiency...
...Accutron wrist watches. To measure time, these timers use a transistor-controlled tuning fork that runs indefinitely on a tiny trickle ( eight-millionths of a watt) of electric power; a battery the size of a dime will keep one of them humming for a year. The whole apparatus weighs less than three ounces, and it can easily be set to turn off a satellite's transmitter after any desired time interval...