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...Professor of Astronomy John P. Huchra describes it, "the amalgam of the institution is greater than the sum of its parts...
Almost overnight, astrophysics gained national prominence after being viewed for years as "a bastard science" akin to astrology, Huchra recalls. From 1955 to 1973, Whipple supervised research in celestial mechanics, upper atmosphere weather meteorics and satellites...
...This supernova is interesting because it is the nearest one that has gone off since the invention of the telescope," said Professor of Astronomy John P. Huchra, an observational cosmologist...
This supernova, called 1987A, is so close to our galaxy that "we've detected things other than light being given off" for the first time, Huchra said...
...expect to find these results, and it was such a surprise that we almost fell off our chairs," said Huchra of the findings, in what he called the deepest study ever of the northern...