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...probes," says Lovell. "It just so happens that this particular form of Russian and American space work fits into our normal research problems." The rest of Jodrell Bank's work is done on pure astronomical research -measuring the angular diameter of quasars and other radio sources, determining the hydrogen content of galaxies, pinpointing the location of radio sources by lunar occultation, mapping the Milky Way. Lovell's particular speciality is studying small flare stars that periodically increase in luminosity...
...Hydrogen & Carbon. To those who do formulate a God, he seems to be everything from a celestial gas to a kind of invisible honorary president "out there" in space, well beyond range of the astronauts. A young Washington scientist suggests that "God, if anything, is hydrogen and carbon. Then again, he might be thermonuclear fission, since that's what makes life on this planet possible." To a streetwalker in Tel Aviv...
...Schmidt's quasars and discussion of the possibility that they may have been ejected from our galaxy. Reports on the death of this idea have been greatly exaggerated. The energy problem is considerably simpler on this basis than on the conventional basis of immense distance. The receding hydrogen cloud discovered by Koehler in front of 3C 273 can more plausibly be interpreted as ejected from our galaxy, in the same manner as in other galaxies, than as part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. The local model of quasars also has the advantage of accounting...
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...able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous for determining the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy as well as for his pioneer role in the radio mapping of hydrogen clouds. "His work was superb," says Oort. Perhaps as important to Schmidt as the professor's good opinion was his hospitality. At a staff party at Oort's home, Schmidt met a strikingly attractive blonde kindergarten teacher named Cornelia Tom, whom he married...