Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray...
...Woman Rebels (Katherine Hepburn, free) Friday at 8 and 10; Charulata (Satyajit Ray) Saturday...
Nayak (The Hero) by Satyajit Ray, Friday and Saturday...
...back to the 1880s, forms the cornerstone of Building C. Martha Liller, guardian of the plates, explains that the expensive collection is one of the long-range investments of the Observatory; only in recent years has it begun to pay off in fashionable fields such as quasars and X-ray sources. She demonstrates the blink comparator, which is used to note changes in the light intensity of a star over time. "You put one plate on this side," she says, "and one over here. Then you look through this eyepiece. The machine flashes the two pictures in front of your...
...course," he smiles. "Astronomy is a science where you can see the past feeding into the present in one generation," he continues. "Sergei Gaposchkin--he's quite a character--was studying binary stars 40 years ago. Now they think binary stars might be connected to x-ray sources. And that's part of a whole computer project...