Word: daylighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some gaseous remains survive long after. In A.D. 1054, Chinese astrologers recorded a brilliant "guest star" supernova that suddenly exploded one night in the constellation Taurus. Located near the tip of the left horn, the star remained visible even during bright daylight. This same supernova's remains can be seen today as the Crab nebula, a diffuse, glowing gas cloud 3,500 light years away, which continues to expand at 800 miles per second...
...space walk showed nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth's curvature ever seen by nonastronauts (see color pages...
Wagner's men were there all right-and they were so conscious of the possibility that they might be accused of riot-incited brutality that they maintained a general attitude of scrupulous courtesy-at times almost to the point of being ineffectual. In the daylight hours following the first upheaval, officers rubbed their shotguns and watched placidly while leisurely looters emptied the shelves of riot-smashed stores. When one tearful shopkeeper begged the cops to stop the thieves from walking away with his livelihood, they shrugged and repeated what Chief Wagner himself had told reporters...
...plundering and burning continued after daylight and throughout the week. Under a greasy pall of smoke, fire trucks shuttled furiously through the streets, as often as not in response to false alarms. Several apartment buildings were burned. A store run by Goodwill Industries, a charitable organization chartered to help the handicapped, was ransacked and burned. The 79ers Bar, where it all began, was destroyed by a fire bomb. To no one's surprise, the regional urban-renewal office was wrecked and looted. Indeed, as one observer put it, Hough's busy arsonists were pursuing their own program...
...loaded with ultraviolet-sensitive film, he shot spectrograms of several stars. Because ultraviolet is largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, the spectrograms could give astronomers a good look at the stars' composition and behavior and provide added information about their origin. As Gemini-Agena passed into daylight, Collins mounted a plate marked with colored patches of red, yellow, blue and grey, shot a series of test pictures that should help determine how the conditions of space affect color photography...