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...Palomar 1'26-'27, 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...
...speeds directly proportionate to their distances. The farther away they are, the faster they are moving. At an easily calculated-distance (about 2 billion light-years), the galaxies must be receding at the speed of light itself. No matter how big his telescopes may grow (the 200-inch on Palomar Mountain can penetrate half that distance), an earthling will never see such galaxies. They are speeding awa.y too fast; their light can never reach the earth...
...Gerard P. Kuiper's closeup of Pluto with the 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, which revealed the planet to be 3,550 miles in diameter (a previous estimate: about twice this size) and the second smallest planet in the solar system (TIME, June...
...Photography may do better when the Palomar telescope takes motion pictures of Mars at the next favorable apposition, in 1956. The 200-in. mirror gathers so much light that it can take a snapshot of Mars in a very brief exposure. A continuous strip of such pictures should catch the planet at instants when its image is not being jiggled by atmospheric irregularities...
...apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...