Word: schwarzschild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Automatic Observatory. The astronomer in charge of the balloon-borne observatory, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild of Princeton University, did not go aloft with his telescope. To keep him alive and functioning at extreme altitude would have been too difficult. And besides, as he explained, even the most careful motions of a human operator would destroy the serene stability of the balloon...
...happened just as planned. Seven hours after launching, the observatory parachuted down, apparently undamaged, near Athens, Wisconsin, 150 miles away. A Navy truck guided by radio tracking, pounced on it promptly and brought the 35-mm. film back for developing. When the first pictures came from the darkroom, Dr. Schwarzschild pronounced them the best ever taken...
...Bubbles. Dr. Schwarzschild realizes that only an astronomer can appreciate the full beauty of his photographs. They are covered with roundish bright spots, each of which is a bubble of hot gas 200-500 miles in diameter that has worked its way up from the sun's interior like a thunderhead. The charm of the pictures, says Schwarzschild, is their unprecedented sharpness...
...first flight of Project Stratoscope, thinks Dr. Schwarzschild, was so successful that the same method may be used to take pictures of the planets. A larger balloon-borne telescope floating far above atmospheric turbulence might decide once and for all the romantic debate about life on Mars...