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...only a blurred dot on a photographic plate. But as displayed last week by Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski of California's Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, it was a scientific milestone: the dot, probably the collision of two galaxies 6 billion light years away from earth, represented the most distant phenomenon ever identified...
...picture, taken by Minkowski with Palomar's giant 200-in. Hale telescope, was a dramatic symbol of a surge in astronomical science made possible by a far-sighted alliance between optical and radio telescopy. When Palomar's 200-incher was completed in 1948, no one expected it to photograph galaxies more than i billion light years away. A major reason: in such telescopes the field of view is very small, and to reach full range they must take long-exposure pictures of each tiny spot before moving on to the next. Thus, Palomar cannot range the heavens...
...years ago radio astronomers at the University of Cambridge reported waves from a dim radio star in the Bootes constellation. Radio astronomy was then too crude to give accurate directions-and when Minkowski tried to photograph the phenomenon with Palomar's telescope, he found nothing. But new radio telescopes at Cambridge and in Owens Valley, Calif, recently drew an accurate bead on the radio star in Bootes. Minkowski pointed the Palomar telescope at the spot indicated. And after exposing a photographic plate for two hours, he got his picture of two big galaxies in collision...
...Here & Now." Spontaneously and almost simultaneously, Psychiatrists Eugène Minkowski in Paris, Erwin W. Straus (now settled in Lexington. Ky.), Baron Viktor von Gebsattel and Karl Jaspers in Germany and Ludwig Binswanger in Switzerland began applying what are now rated as phenomenological and existential principles to psychiatry. The influence spread from these elders to young psychiatrists in training. Binswanger and others named their method Daseinsanalyse, from Heidegger's term for existence, Dasein (translated as "being here and now"). The new approach was not formalized in a new school, designed to supplant earlier "depth psychology" methods, but permeated many...
...debris of the fantastically brilliant exploding star recorded by Chinese stargazers in 1054 A.D. now forms the Crab nebula. "This star shone temporarily ten times brighter than the moon," said Rudolph Minkowski of Mount Wilson Observatory, "and was visible for a full month in the daytime sky. It was . . . one of the three supernovae which have appeared in the Milky Way during the last thousand years. The others were Tycho's star in 1572, and Kepler's Nova of 1604." In Pasadena next day Minkowski's colleague, Walter Baade, announced finding the debris of Kepler...