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...from the nucleus in a mere 10 million to 100 million years, which is only a tiny part of the life span of a galaxy. Since the nucleus is not drained, its hydrogen must be replenished somehow. Rougoor and Oort suggest that the replenishing hydrogen may come from the corona of thinly scattered hydrogen atoms that surrounds the whole galaxy like a huge spherical cocoon 80,000 light-years wide, working its way into the spinning disk at the top and bottom...
...device a disk is placed where an image of the sun and its corona is focused by a lens. This disk acts like the moon during a natural eclipse of the sun by blocking out or eclipsing the bright solar disk...
...totality though, persons should remove their glasses or even use binoculars to see the full brilliance of the corona. Menzel said the eclipse can easily be photographed with an ordinary camera at f/6.3 at 1/25th, warning that most persons "overexpose these things badly...
...First Time (Corona; MGM) presents outsize Tenor Mario ("My voice is the greatest in the world") Lanza as an "unpredictable, erratic, self-centered" American singer who is chased by an overdressed, "publicity-loving" international party girl (Zsa Zsa Gabor). The casting is pluperfect, but most of the picture is a pretentious bore. The pre recorded songs seem unable to locate Lanza's lips, and some of the arias might even have been scraped off old Lanza sound tracks. The only new number, a "Jamaican rock 'n' roll" item called Pineapple Pickers, summons little of the old Mario...
Next time around, the full experiment worked. On command, the satellite erased the Teletype message and recorded a voice message: "This is Prado Dam. United States Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Corona, Calif. We are transmitting the President's message . . ." Queried by the tracking station in Texas, the satellite repeated the message "loud and clear...