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Until recently, professional astronomers, more concerned with planets, distant galaxies, quasars and pulsars, left the observing of comets largely to amateurs. Comets were "bagfuls of nothing," sniffed Percival Lowell, the turn-of-the-century astronomer who made a career of observing Mars. Since that putdown, scientists have learned to take...
Kohoutek probably originated far beyond the outermost planet, where billions of comets are believed to orbit the sun. They were apparently born out of the same cloud of interstellar dust and gas that created the sun and the planets some 4.6 billion years ago, and have remained largely unchanged since...
» As chunks of debris dating back to the earliest days of the solar system, meteorites are intently studied by scientists for any clues they may offer to the primordial past. But even the highest expectations did not prepare University of Chicago Scientists Robert Clayton, Lawrence Grossman and Toshiko K...
A genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out...
Yet Lovecraft had real talent too. After a while his reverberant prose seems mesmeric. Well did he know that true terror lies in the tension between our scientific age's rationalism and our primordial sense of individual powerlessness-of being enmeshed in something vast, inexplicable and appallingly evil. For...