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...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUE TO GALAXIES IS IN CEPHEID VARIABLES | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic rays which seem to speed from interstellar space, and constantly bombard the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Millikan to Tasmania | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and therefore that the rays should fill all space more or less uniformly. This is only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky of Caltech believes that cosmic rays may be the products of individual stellar explosions which occur all the time in some region or other of the universe. Hannes Alfven of Sweden's Upsala University holds that the rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ray Retraction | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...faint star which is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun (and which may be the sun's nearest neighbor in interstellar space) was reported recently by astronomers of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin (TIME, May 23). Last week Dr. Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology announced discovery of a star at the other extreme of cosmic brightness-400,000,000 times as bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmic Prodigy | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...universe-or that life has always existed. He also refuses to believe that life was carried to earth in meteorites, since existing meteorites show no sign of containing viable organisms. Dr. Oparin also rejects the theory of free spores or other life-bearing particles driven to earth through interstellar space by impacts from radiation. He holds that ultraviolet or cosmic radiation would kill any such life particles beyond the sheltering blanket of the earth's atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Life? | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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