Word: nebula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Princeton, N.J., in 1953, the meeting, he says, "changed my life." Einstein, he recalls, "appeared at the head of a staircase with the setting sun to his left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John F. Kennedy, Harry...
Zwicky and Baade even suggested a possible location of such a neutron star. They predicted that one might be found in the center of the expanding gases of the celebrated Crab Nebula, the site of a Milky Way supernova that was observed by Chinese astronomers...
Carter has seized one or two of the few odd moments of presidential quietude he has to put his eye to his family's reflecting telescope and search out the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra. He has asked his Secretary of Transportation, Brock Adams, to advise the engineers who design our mass-transit systems to simplify them so they are more functional. He has mulled the reasons why the huge power turbines lose reliability as they grow in size, and how thinking smaller may be one way to energy conservation...
...technological utopias, has always been "Where do we go from here?" Now Clarke himself may be a writer with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...
...have been lit, the actual ignition is hidden deep within the interstellar clouds. "Nature very discreetly pulls the curtain over the act of birth," says Thaddeus. But the infant star soon makes its presence known, shining through and illuminating the obscuring cloud. This process is occurring in the Orion Nebula (see color page), the illuminated portion of a gigantic cloud of gas and dust that is giving birth to new stars. Some of the stars spawned by the nebula have been formed as recently as the time when the human species first stood upright; the newest offspring are only about...