Word: astronants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert W. Noyes, lecturer on Astron omy, left over a week ago to set up camp in a converted railway car in the mountains east of Arequipa...
Particularly perplexing is the fact that the light output of many quasars has been observed to vary over cycles as short as three months. To some astron omers, this means that some of the quasars may be as small as 90 light-days in diameter-a distance of 1.5 trillion miles, which is mere peanuts by cosmological standards. If these quasars were much larger, the light and radio waves from various parts of them would arrive at the earth at different times, smearing out the variation and making it unobservable...
...parachuted back to Earth promises to stir up a lively astronomical argument. Mariner confirmed earlier radiotelescope observations and reported that the Venusian surface is far too hot and dry to support any Earth-type life. The flying telescope got a vastly different slant. After careful analysis, says Hopkins Balloon Astron omer John Strong, he is convinced that the clouds hiding the Venusian surface are made of ice particles, just like the Earth's high clouds. And if Venus has that amount of water around, it may also have some sort of life...