Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration of the telescopes gave us a 'lens' 3,000 miles in diameter," explains Astronomer Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass...
...taken care of that summer internship interview with your Congressman, climbed the Washington Monument and gawked at the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian. s Since you're bound to end up on The Mall between the Capital and Lincoln's scowling marble face; why not step into the least-frequented building there; the National Boitanical Gardens...
...committee includes: former congressman from Missouri Richard Bolling; former Attorney General and President of the Univ. of Chicago, Edward Levi; chief executive of the former Itech Corporation, Franklin Lindsay; Philip F. Hughes from the Smithsonian Institute; Philip Buchen, a Washington attorney and former counsel to President Ford; and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Joseph Califano...
None of the year's graphics are fresher or more appealing than a poster for the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) show on The Magic of Neon. Designed by Jannes Art Publishing and Beda Ross Design Ltd., it is based on an original neon artwork by Lili Lakich...
Despite the billions of stars in the galaxy, most are too faint to measure accurately, Large telescopes, such as the Multiple Mirror Telescope of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona near Tuscon, are employed to collect the necessary data...