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Blue to Green. The 200-inch Palomar telescope was built primarily for studying more distant nebulae. It can photograph them as faint blurs at distances something like one billion lightyears, but getting their spectra is more difficult. The light from the nebula is concentrated by the telescope's great mirror upon a prism, which spreads it into a spectrum one-tenth of an inch long. So dim is the image on the photographic plate that four to six hours of exposure are needed to make the picture...
...pages of pictures, the bruising war of the foot soldier is fixed in a succession of moments that make captions superfluous (Duncan uses none). To capture such moments, Duncan had to become, in effect, a front-line soldier. Only in that way could he get close enough to photograph the grenade in flight, the finger squeezing the trigger, the first instant of surprised shock of the wounded...
Before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, the Air Force last week proudly displayed a photograph of a golf course taken from an altitude of 45,000 ft. (roughly 8½ miles) with one of its newest and most secret aerial cameras. Visible to the naked eye: two golfers standing on a green. Visible under a magnifying glass: a golf ball on the green...
...omniscient penman turns out to be a man named Kuno Schiller, a brilliant photographer who has discovered the N-ray-something which can catch men's thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...
...once, Schiller disappears. For two years the government wallows along without him. Then a house burns down in a Berlin suburb, and Schiller's body is found in the ruins, along with the corpse of another man. His wife gives her evidence: in reading an N-ray photograph of her, Schiller saw the image of another man. Insanely jealous, he had dropped everything and devoted two years to finding the fellow. In the end. he had burned the house down around both of them...