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Using telescopes on Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins in Arizona and Mount Palomar in California, they photographed patches of the night sky and got two-dimensional pictures showing the distribution of matter in a sector of space. To add the perspective of depth they used an astronomical yardstick called the red shift, a measure of how far an object has traveled based on how sharply its light is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum...
...Eartha Kitt, singer, on why she is moving from the West Coast to the East: "Everyone's on cocaine or marijuana. There's no one out there for me to play with any more...
John P. Huchra, lecturer in Astornomy and a staff member at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), along with Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona and Jeremy Mould of the Kitt Peak (Ariz.) National observatory, conducted the research that led to these conclusions. Aaronson attended graduate school at Harvard from...
...bizarre consequence of Einstein's general relativity theory: if a very massive object were located almost directly between the earth and a distant star, its tremendous gravity would act as a "gravitational lens" that could bend the starlight into two different paths. To produce the effect observed at Kitt Peak, the astronomers calculated, a huge galaxy or a black hole at least 10 trillion times as massive as the sun would be required...
...Perry Greenfield and Bernard Burke, all from M.I.T., who analyzed signals from the quasars received at the Very Large Array (VLA) antennas of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro, N.M. What resulted was a radio map that, with one important exception, coincided with the images seen with the Kitt Peak telescope. The difference was that the sensitive radio antenna array discerned two jets of material that seemed to be shooting from one of the quasars. Explains Physicist Burke: "Quasars do have outbursts and send out material that gives off radio noise without producing much light...