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...breeze was stirring north of Maryland. At Hatteras, N.C., the Weather Bureau's radar (which shows rain-filled air) watched lone approaching with measured tread. She had a clear little eye in her center (the signature of a hurricane), and around it were elaborate swirls like a spiral nebula (see cuts'}. But lone lingered; her eye grew dim; her spirals dissolved in a structureless blob of rain...
...Most stars were formed by a complicated process that leaves a good deal of material outside the star in the form of planets. This star-forming process is still going on in many places, notably the Orion nebula. A sequel to this theory: about 100,000 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy must have planets, and a considerable fraction of them must be suitable for life. Where life is possible, Hoyle believes, it will appear. He thinks that it may originate in the cooler gases around a newborn planet...
...Astronomer George H. Herbig of Lick Observatory took a photograph of a small area in the Orion nebula, which is 1,600 light years (9,600 trillion miles) away from the earth. It showed three faint stars embedded in a cloud of dust and gas. At last week's Dublin meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Dr. Herbig displayed a recent picture of the same region. The picture showed five stars, two of which may be newborn. The light from the new stars, of course, took 1,600 years to reach the earth, so the stars were actually born...
...empty city. Among Radulovic's most successful combinations of abstract forms with recognizable objects: Anesthesia, a big oil of grey, white and blue in which the surgical team is seen in triplicate by the almost anesthetized patient, and the last moment of consciousness is represented by a spiral nebula of whites and blues...
Shapley also believes that the Milky Way, our own galactic system, can no longer be ranked as the largest galaxy. The famed spiral nebula in Andromeda now appears to be at least as large and is actually 1,500,000 light years away, twice as far as the previous figure...