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Another kind of space science?new-style astronomy???is near at hand. Ground-based optical astronomy just about reached its limit with the completion of the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope in 1948. Bigger optical telescopes will not be much better because of the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere. This deadlock may be broken by automatic telescopes carried by satellites far above all trace of air. Even if rather small, the telescopes will see much more clearly than the 200-incher. Perhaps they will settle the question of the "canals" on Mars. They will certainly observe in the heavens...
Amid your manifold and widely interesting articles, can you not find space for something on popular astronomy???a subject of fascinating interest to multitudes who have never had even the chance to look through a telescope...
Last week, the colleges continued to pay compliments (TIME, June 22). For the first time in history, Oxford University singled out a woman. For valuable contributions to Astronomy???notably the completion of The Henry Draper Catalog of Stellar Spectra, covering 225,300 stars?Oxford created Miss Annie Jump Cannon, a Wellesley graduate and worker at the Harvard Observatory, an honorary Doctor of Science. Miss Cannon, aged 61. journeyed to Oxford to receive her kudos in person...
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