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A train wreck a century and a half ago sent Herman Melville into this eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the...
But Melville did not mean the heavens. He was inclined to look for an evil principle at work in the heart of things: at sea, the white whale, Moby Dick, would serve the purpose. Around his home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Melville had to strain himself to turn a...
Still air, fair weather and the 8,000 foot elevation provide perfect conditions for viewing the heavens.
The Five Gospels said it loud and proud. An introduction announced that "the Christ of creed and dogma, who had been firmly in place in the Middle Ages, can no longer command the assent of those who have seen the heavens through Galileo's telescope." The Seminarians circulated papers among...
But scientists aren't likely to be embarrassed by C/1996 B2, better known as Comet Hyakutake. By last week the recently discovered visitor from the edge of the solar system was already being spotted without telescopes or binoculars by stargazers from the Azores to Australia, and many of them rushed...