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Perhaps the most confusing phenomenon of all is the discovery of a glowing companion to the supernova that is 100 times as bright as Sanduleak had been. Scientists are frankly stumped by its appearance. Two teams of astronomers, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and London's Imperial College, both using a technique known as optical speckle interferometry (quickly dubbed "that speckled thing"), fed data from telescopic observations into computers. What emerged was a composite picture that confounded everyone. Said Woosley: "It's easier to say what it isn't than what it is. It wasn't there before...
...where they grow, eat and await their coming-out 17 years hence. The fact that this brood will not reappear until 2004 is one reason scientists are reluctant to put too much of their time into unlocking the cicada's secrets. As Richard Froeschner, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, points out, "Enthusiasm and curiosity tend to wane between generations...
...exhibitions represent the first exchange of paintings between the two countries since the signing of the cultural exchange agreement in 1985 in Geneva. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the exhibition will be shown in this country from October 1986 through July 1987 at galleries in Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles as well as in Cambridge...
...University owns two observatories for the purpose of monitoring the stars and extraterrestial life. The George R. Agassiz Station is located in Fort Davis, Texas and the Oakbridge Observatory is in Harvard, Massachusetts, The Smithsonian Institution operates the latter facility, which contains a 61-inch optical reflector telescope...
Although endowments support the two observatories, the majority of its annual costs are met mostly through federal grants, says James Corness, publications manager for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...