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...NASA'S GRAND SLAM The Hubble Space Telescope produced astonishing pictures of cosmic clouds, stellar nurseries and galactic collisions. The space shuttle executed a flawless linkup with the Russian space station Mir--twice. And a probe from the intrepid spacecraft Galileo became the first man-made object to plunge through the upper atmosphere of the planet Jupiter...
...HUBBLE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS irrelevant as they are beautiful. Suppose our vision were limited to the range of the human eye and the resources spent on seeing farther into the universe had been devoted to improving our own speck of cosmic dust, the earth. How much worse off would we be? JAMES H. REYNOLDS Berkeley, California...
...Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...
...This cosmic vista, seen in a photo released by NASA two weeks ago, is the latest in a series of stunning images captured from the ends of the universe by the Hubble Space Telescope. Once written off as a near total loss because of an inaccurately ground mirror, the Hubble has in the past two years redeemed itself spectacularly. It has offered close-up pictures of distant galaxies that are 10 times as sharp as those produced by earthbound telescopes--pictures that are not just scientifically significant but breathtakingly beautiful as well. In fact, the orbiting observatory has extended...
...core of one galaxy it has found a black hole as massive as 3 billion suns. It has made scientists front-row spectators at the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and the planet Jupiter. And it has begun to unravel the riddle of the brilliant beacons of cosmic light known as quasars. Go to any astronomy conference these days, and you'll find half the scientific papers are based on space-telescope observations. "The Hubble," declares University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson, "is fundamentally altering our view of the universe...