Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge, complex telescopes of modern astronomy have a simple purpose: to concentrate light. Their mirrors (up to 200 inches in diameter) and lenses catch a wide bundle of light rays from faint stars or nebulae and cram them together at a small focus on a sensitized plate. Last week two French astronomers, Andre Lallemand and Maurice Duchesnes, were showing off a new wrinkle in astrophotography. Instead of depending on the original starlight to make the photographic impression, they plan to amplify the light's energy before it reaches the plate...
Next month the new method will be tried astronomically; its inventors hope that it will transform the biggest telescope of the Paris Observatory (24 inches) into the equivalent of a 240-incher, and make it possible to photograph billions of faint stars never detected before...
...first festival, I suffered from stage fright because I hadn't played in public for so long. Now I enjoy it all immensely." At one point in mid-festival, a bit tired from the heavy load of rehearsals and performances, the 74-year-old maestro felt faint for a moment, had to pause briefly before going on. But this week, apparently none the worse for wear, he was getting ready for three weeks of recordings, talking about another festival next year...
...sight of the forceps, several women in the audience of 1,500, gathered around multiple sets, seemed about to faint. But more of the baby's head appeared and Dr. Ullery laid aside the forceps, decided that only some cutting of the perineum was needed. A quick snip, and the whole head appeared. The rest of the 9¾-lb. baby soon followed. Said Ullery: "This is a boy." The crowd applauded...
Blue to Green. The 200-inch Palomar telescope was built primarily for studying more distant nebulae. It can photograph them as faint blurs at distances something like one billion lightyears, but getting their spectra is more difficult. The light from the nebula is concentrated by the telescope's great mirror upon a prism, which spreads it into a spectrum one-tenth of an inch long. So dim is the image on the photographic plate that four to six hours of exposure are needed to make the picture...