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...manifested not in visible light but in invisible X rays that every 11 1/2 minutes, like clockwork, momentarily become more intense. It was the brilliant radiation that enabled EXOSAT, a European X ray- detecting satellite, to find the binary stars, which were hidden from ordinary telescopic view in a globular cluster of stars 20,000 light years away from the earth...
...months later, Columbia will bear a $55 million payload named Astro-1 that includes three ultraviolet telescopes and two wide-angle cameras. For much of the mission, the instruments will be studying such exotica as quasars, black holes and globular clusters, but for a while during the days that the five international probes encounter the comet, all of Columbia's eyes will be on Halley's. One of the Astro-1 telescopes will peer at very short wavelength light to see if it can detect such elements as helium, neon and argon, which would reveal something about what temperatures were...
...collection of short stories from the title on, this subversively weird choice of quotes (the third one comes from Butchering Livestock at Home) is at once whimsically ironic and bitterly true. Moore's basic here and throughout is that can be as radical radical and ridiculous as the globular mollusk's loss of a tentacle during sex. The stories deal with pain of the most banal and yet terrible sort--the pain of relationships and marriages gone bad, of broken families...
Besides the possible black hole in Cygnus, one appears to be part of another double-star system in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). Three more may have been detected, each at the heart of a globular cluster of stars in the halo of the earth's Milky Way galaxy. In the inner regions of these clusters, which contain tens of thousands of individual stars, some of the stars are revolving with wobbly motions, as if disturbed by a center of enormous gravity. Herbert Gursky and Andrea Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that these stars "may well...
...their glazing techniques. David Pribnow characteristically uses matte glazes of different colored slips (liquid clays), which he paints on meticulously in geometrical patterns. Along with the slip method he uses salt glazing, throwing salt into the kiln at a critical moment, producing glassy, speckled surfaces. The shapes are globular and difficult to throw; the decorations rigidly geometrical. The result is the antithesis of accident--he inspires admiration, not empathy...