Word: palomar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stellar light look much the same to the naked eye. But seen through the subtle, prying instruments of modern astronomy, those distant points of light expand into a bewildering variety of stars. Among the strangest are the dwarf novas, described by Astronomer Robert P. Kraft of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in the Astrophysical Journal...
Colliding Galaxies. Early attempts to decide by observation which kind of universe is the real one were not successful. Optical telescopes, even the 200-in. giant on Mount Palomar, could probe only 2 billion light-years into space. But telescopes using radio waves, which have the same speed as light waves, can see much farther. Certain rare celestial objects, pairs of galaxies in collision, send out enormous quantities of radio waves; they may look very bright to radio telescopes, while optical telescopes can hardly see them...
Another kind of space science?new-style astronomy?is near at hand. Ground-based optical astronomy just about reached its limit with the completion of the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope in 1948. Bigger optical telescopes will not be much better because of the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere. This deadlock may be broken by automatic telescopes carried by satellites far above all trace of air. Even if rather small, the telescopes will see much more clearly than the 200-incher. Perhaps they will settle the question of the "canals" on Mars. They will certainly observe in the heavens...
...year is the Carnegie Institution's annual report on the projects it has underwritten in fields ranging from physics to plant biology. Most eye-popping items in the 1960 report, which was released last week, were the major astronomical findings made by the institution at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in California. Among the notable discoveries and newfound mysteries...
...telescope on Palomar Mountain was finished, and Baade had an even better window to look through. He fought for time on this marvelous instrument, and when he got it, he spent all night in the instrument cage. Every trip to Palomar cost him three or four pounds because of excitement and skipped meals...