Word: moring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Woodstock rock festival draws crowd of more than 400,000 to rural Bethel, N.Y., 1969.
NASA's assumption was based on OAO-II's report of unexpectedly powerful ultraviolet radiation from half a dozen nearby galaxies. If this is true, NASA scientists reasoned, distant galaxies probably give off large amounts of the same invisible radiation. But those galaxies are receding from the earth...
In the first place, NASA's critics pointed out, ultraviolet radiation accounts for no more than a tenth of thz radiation from a galaxy. Thus, even a large increase in this component would not greatly affect a galaxy's overall brightness. Besides, modern astronomers always compensate for the...
Galactic Structure. NASA's apparent error in cosmological calculations in no way detracts from the splendid performance of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory. Operating in a 480-mile-high orbit above the polluted obscuring atmosphere and equipped with 11 telescopes, it has given astronomers a view of the skies unattainable...
Pernicious Pollution. Dramatic oil spills in coastal waters capture the public's concern by killing countless marine creatures and sea birds. But more pernicious is the long term effect of chronic pollution from tankers flushing their storage compartments at sea. That, along with other everyday mishaps, adds up to...