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Although the returning comet was spotted back in 1982 by the mammoth 200-in. Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory, astronomers did not think they would be able to make naked-eye sightings until late December. But Halley's is much brighter than it was expected to be, a phenomenon that may be only temporary. Scientists say that the comet's current luminosity does not necessarily portend, during the coming months, a more brilliant display than they had anticipated...
...Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books; 2003) For fourteen years "Love and Rockets," one of the most influential comix series ever created, included Hernandez' tales of a fictional Mexican border town called Palomar. All these stories have now been collected into a 522-page book that combines the convoluted absurdity of a soft-core soap opera with Lorca's depth of character and Faulkner's sense of place...
...founded the school’s graduate program in astronomy and spent more than 1,000 nights observing the skies from the Hale telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. He wrote, on average, eight and a half papers per year during his time at Caltech...
Even after his retirement in 1979, Greenstein continued to observe the stars, making his last trip to the Palomar Observatory...
Although they usually work side by side, the brothers write and draw the individual stories that make up Love and Rockets separately. Each book typically contains at least two tales. In Gilbert's, the main characters all have some connection to the fictional border town of Palomar; his drawings display a warm voluptuousness clearly influenced by the superhero comics of the '60s that the brothers read as boys. Jaime's plots center on Maggie Chascarrillo, a dreamy woman who drifts in and out of relationships among Los Angeles' grownup punk rockers; his lines and compositions are slim and elegant, though...