Word: arizona
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James Cornell, publications manager for the Center, says the combination brings together "all the various tools one needs to attack problems at the very limits." For Marc Davis, assistant professor of Astronomy, the tools include the grant-obtaining power of a Harvard faculty appointment, and SAO observing equipment in Arizona...
...observing station beneath the clear skies of Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and HCO owns a station beyond the polluted skies of Boston, in the town of Harvard, Mass. The equipment at HCO's station includes a large, optical telescope and a radiotelescope--a movable disk 84 feet across for receiving radio waves from sources in deep space. A reflecting telescope composed of six 72-inch-diameter mirrors should go into operation at SAO's Arizona station this summer, although in Fall 1975 completion of construction was expected by Fall 1976. The six mirrors, focused together by computer, will equal the light...
While observers at the multi-mirror telescope in Arizona will study the ends of the visible universe, Alan Lightman, assistant professor of Astronomy, is now reaching for knowledge out at the brink of the unknowable. In his carpeted nine-by-twelve office, Lightman is doing theoretical studies of star patterns adjacent to black holes. Existing instruments cannot observe these patterns...
Among the Florida citrus groves and stands of Arizona cacti, the boys of summer are loosening up their highly priced limbs. When the conversation is not about the greening of their America -baseball salaries have soared in three years-it is about another lively new facet of the grand old game...
...hard-driving House Democrats, Arizona's Morris Udall, Carter's old rival in the presidential primaries, and Ohio's John Seiberling, almost certainly will try to tack onto Carter's bills an amendment calling for the dismemberment...