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...nothing that could be photographed with optical telescopes. Then Caltech's giant interferometer in Owens Valley (two 90-ft. radio telescopes working in unison) mapped many double sources with unprecedented accuracy. When the new radio map of the sky was superimposed on photographs taken with the 200-in. Palomar telescope, a galaxy was often neatly bracketed between paired spots of radio energy...
Radio Galaxy. The strongest "radio star" in the sky had the astronomers baffled for many years. Its powerful waves came from a patch of sky in the constellation Cygnus, and optical astronomers could find nothing there. At last the Palomar telescope, guided by a new and extremely accurate radio fix, photographed an extraordinary scene that looked like a collision of two enormous galaxies 500 million light-years away. Galaxy collisions are possible, though unlikely, and they might emit radio waves because of churning gases between their hundreds of billions of stars...
...Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters to spray coffee trees in Brazil, low-cost housing to rise in Chile, astronomers to search the skies from Mount Palomar, textile machinery to hum in the Congo, supermarkets to peddle groceries in Milan, and antiquarians to admire the re-created haunts of Socrates in Athens...
Telstar trailed behind it the stuff of history. To the annals of place names like Kitty Hawk, Palomar and Canaveral it added Andover, the earth station in Maine; a place with the wonderful name of Goonhilly, in southwest England; and the euphonious Pleumeur-Bodou, in Brittany. In the long record of man's scientific triumphs, it ranked in drama with Morse's telegraphic message ("What hath God wrought!") and Bell's first telephoned sentence ("Mr. Watson, come here-I want you!''). To many Americans, as they sat by their TV sets, it evoked memories...
Dwarf novas are dim stars that have the strange habit of flaring up at irregular intervals-increasing their brightness almost 100-fold. Astronomers have often speculated about these periodic changes, but until Dr. Kraft used the great 200-inch Palomar telescope to follow 20 dwarf novas through many bright and dim cycles, no one was sure what caused them. Using telescope and spectrograph, Dr. Kraft kept track of the novas' changing temperature, light and motion. After 30 months he was able to prove that at least seven of them are double stars. The two bodies whirl around each other...