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Professional astronomers are not above sentiment. Caltech's Charles Kowal, who has found scores of heavenly bodies, from supernovas to moonlets, christened one asteroid Napolitania, after Naples, Italy, his wife's home town. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics called another Nancy, for his wife. Lowell Observatory's Edward Bowell, in what is admittedly a minority view, sees nothing wrong with someone seeking immortality by hitching his moniker to a star. After all, he says, "nobody owns the stars, do they...
...this Archie Bunker architecture, as it might be called, has been documented in a 31-panel photographic exhibition titled "Transformed Houses." Currently at Baltimore's Peale Museum, it will tour some 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., through 1984. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, it was photographed by Camilo Vergara, 37, a conservation specialist for the New Jersey department of energy, who first noticed Bunker architecture when he worked in blue-collar Jersey City in 1976-77. I'm not interested in creating artistic pictures. "I did want to document this...
Four scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics last week watched the second mission of the space shuttle with special interest, for they are hoping to use the shuttle as a laboratory in years to come...
Columbia's flight was "reasonably successful, considering everything," Alistair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department and associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said this week. "One has to expect all sorts of things will go wrong on these test flights, and that's what they're for," he added...
Children's Night at the Observatory--Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...