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...force-a kind of anti-gravity that works only when objects are separated by very great distances-took hold of the galaxies and made them fly away from one another. This is what they are doing still. The most distant ones that can be seen with the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope are moving away from the earth at 37,000 miles per second or about one-fifth the speed of light...
...patches of the sky that are sources of powerful Yadio waves but which seldom correspond with any object visible to optical telescopes. A clue to what these mysterious "stars" may be was given by the discovery about two years ago that the second strongest of them shows in the Palomar Mountain 200-inch optical telescope as a pair of galaxies, apparently in collision, hundreds of millions of light-years away. The new telescope men will attempt to show that fainter radio stars are also colliding galaxies. Since the radio waves created in some unknown way by such collisions penetrate much...
Into dozens of good works J.D.R. Jr. probed restlessly, pouring millions into U.S. universities and colleges and especially into Negro colleges, spurring research into oceanography and astronomy, e.g., the 200-in. telescope at Mount Palomar. broadening out from his closed-in Baptist childhood to support fervently the Protestant Interchurch World Movement, to help out increasingly on large-scale Catholic and Jewish projects...
Sandage, assistant astronomer at California's Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, notes that this would mean that the universe was expanding more rapidly a billion years ago than it is now. "If the measurements and the interpretation are correct." he says, "this suggests that we live in an evolving rather than in a steady-state universe." Even Hoyle is impressed by these findings, calls them "the most serious potential contradiction of the steady-state theory...
...successful consummation, a definite centralization of the Observatory away from Cambridge. Local conditions, and even those at Harvard, Mass., were far too poor for high-quality optical work. The all too familiar New England weather does not supply skies to match those available to Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories...