Word: kootwijk
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Hydrogen near the nucleus of the Milky Way galaxy is hard to observe, but by refining their dish-shaped radio telescope at Kootwijk, the Dutch astronomers picked up its radiation. They found, as they had expected, that the nucleus is revolving faster than the rim of the galaxy near the solar system. They also found another and surprising fact. Hydrogen abounds in the nucleus, but it is not arranged in the familiar pattern of stars and clouds with near-empty space between them. Instead, it seems to be a "continuous medium" in a state of violent turbulence, with streams...
While teaching here in 1951, Dutch astrophysicist H. C. van de Hulst gathered some information and equipment from Ewen and transmitted them to Leiden University astronomers. Work done at Kootwijk with slightly different equipment verified Ewen's report, which was further confirmed by the findings of an Australian radio telescope...
...wielded powder horn, ramrod and wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
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