Word: slipher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...light-year is the distance that light, traveling at 186,000 m.p.s., covers in one year-5,865,696,000,000 miles. *Dr. Vesto Slipher of Lowell Observatory measured, before Hubble, the slower speeds of nearer nebulae. *Hubble would be the first to deny that all the credit for the expanding universe theory is his. Many others, from Harvard's Harlow Shapley to Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, have contributed. *One cause for coolness: a studio, planning a movie about the stars, hired a Mount Wilson astronomer as consultant. He was happy with his easy $200 a month...
...even if Astronomer Slipher is right and the "canals" are real canals, the beings who built them may have become extinct, in the planet's thinning atmosphere and dwindling water supply, millions of years...
...more than half a century a dispute has raged in a mild way among astronomers as to whether the "canals" of Mars are real or optical illusions. The canals are easier for imaginative astronomers to see than to record on unimaginative photographic plates. But last week Astronomer Earl Carl Slipher of Lowell Observatory, armed with good photographs of the red planet taken during its close approach last summer, declared that these pictures and others made during the past 35 years all show the canals clearly defined and in the same place...
...already long list of odds against the experiment, Astronomer Earl C. Slipher of Lowell Observatory had added another: his belief that it had been snowing on Mars last week...
Since there is a better view of Mars this time from the Earth's southern hemisphere than from the northern, Dr. Slipher was last week posted at Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein in South Africa. He discovered that Solis Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...