Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athens last week, the young King of Greece was regaling his friends with his version of an encounter at sea. It seems the sky was clear and the wind low enough so that the officer on the deck of the U.S. carrier Saratoga was able to hail the youthful skipper of the sloop Proteus without a megaphone...
Ever since 1949, when X rays from the sun were first detected, astronomers have been probing the skies for other X-ray sources outside the solar system. Their search was not rewarded until 1962, when more sensitive instruments picked up the first X-ray emissions from outside the solar system. But until this year, only one additional visible object had been definitely identified as an X-ray producer: the familiar Crab Nebula.* Though their relatively crude instruments sensed X rays from about two dozen other vaguely defined areas of the sky, astronomers have been un able to tell which...
Infant Star. Armed with this information, observers at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and California's Mount Palomar Observatory focused their large telescopes on the proper position in the sky. Immediately they spotted their quarry: a blue, starlike object with a magnitude of 12.6. "It was really Giacconi's show all the way," says Mount Wilson and Palomar Astronomer Allan Sandage. "Identification was terribly easy after he provided the precise location...
...better than your city. In the Middle Ages, they proved it by erecting the biggest cathedral, in the Renaissance, by commissioning the grandest city hall, in the 19th century, by bolting together the most cavernous railroad station. In the 20th century, cities began putting their pride in the sky and, until lately at least, the sky scraper sufficed as the symbol. Now the high-rise office has an even skinnier cousin, the cloud-busting television tower-generally equipped with a slowly rotating restaurant...
...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...