Word: palomar
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...first detected and pinpointed by Astronomer John Bolton with the 210-ft. radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Using coordinates supplied by Bolton, California Astronomers Halton Arp and Thomas D. Kinman zeroed in on the quasar with the 200-in. optical telescope at Mount Palomar and the 120-in. Lick Observatory telescope...
Theory & Practice. In their specialties, the two schools have been world pacesetters. Caltech's astronomers use the telescopes at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, and with Maarten Schmidt have explored the unusual nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter...
Infant Star. Armed with this information, observers at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and California's Mount Palomar Observatory focused their large telescopes on the proper position in the sky. Immediately they spotted their quarry: a blue, starlike object with a magnitude of 12.6. "It was really Giacconi's show all the way," says Mount Wilson and Palomar Astronomer Allan Sandage. "Identification was terribly easy after he provided the precise location...
...scientific community accepts Astronomer Maarten Schmidt's contention that the faint stars called quasars are the most distant objects ever observed (TIME cover, March 11). But challengers remain, and they have by no means given up. Schmidt's colleague, Halton Arp of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, for example, believes that quasars were ejected from odd-looking galaxies that are, by cosmological standards, virtual neighbors to the earth...
Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories Pasadena, Calif...