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...that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness and the location of that difference on the electromagnetic spectrum make sense to astronomers: a newly formed galaxy would give off just such a light signature as it rushed away from earth in the general expansion of the universe...
...relief: ultraviolet scans indicated that the blue star might still be intact. Says Catharine Garmany, an astronomer at the University of Colorado: "It is probably shaking in its boots, but we're beginning to think it's still there." The scientists shifted their attention to two nearby, somewhat fainter stars visible on older plates. But these choices also worried them, because the progenitor should have been much brighter...
...rare-book dealer and his customer have long been favorite subjects of painters. Musty, refined, the dilettantes gaze out from the works of artists from Daumier to Norman Rockwell, echoes of a time when collectors were more interested in pages than profits. The echoes are growing fainter by the week. Today, Ye Olde Booke Shoppe is likely to be mistaken for Ye Stocke Exchange. Dusty volumes have become hot commodities. New York City Dealer Raymond Wapner finds the upswing encouraging: "It's about time we came to terms with the economic reality of the times. In upward movement...
HEAO-B should enable astronomers to examine radiation sources a thousand times fainter than those observed until now. "We hope to give the universe a lot of chances to show us something new," he added...
Still, I am certain that if Aldo Moro had been shot outright, like the members of his bodyguard, our outrage would have been, even fainter. Since the assassinations of the Kennedys, we seem to have no more shock to register about 'the killing of a public man. Besides, there is a sense in which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however...