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...Astronomy lost a star on Oct. 3, 2005. Menzel Research Professor of Astrophysics Alastair G.W. Cameron died of heart failure in Tucson, Arizona. He was 80 years old. Cameron was an active member of the Harvard faculty for 26 years. He started as an associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and served as Department of Astronomy chair from 1976-1982. Cameron’s primary research interests were the structure and evolution of solar nebula and the formation and sequence evolution of low-mass stars, as well as their nucleosynthesis. He also studied planet formation...
...nebulae with resolutions that are 50 times higher than previous photographs, according to Goodman. Fellow astronomers hailed the “cloudshine” finding. “I agree with Professor Goodman that cloudshine will prove to be very revealing,” the director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, Charles R. Alcock, wrote in an e-mail. Goodman is also a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center. Foster and Goodman summarized their findings in a paper submitted for publication to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Traditional images of nebulae, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, employ only...
...lead to more virulent hurricanes. Schrag’s research has shown that human survival could come into question as unstable and unpredictable weather conditions plague the planet. But Schrag’s findings are not without controversy. Some scientists, such as Willie Soon, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a senior scientist at the Marshall Institute—which is funded by Exxon Mobile and other private interests—suggest that the current climatic change is a natural phase in climate history, rather than induced by carbon emissions. But Schrag disagrees with this line...
Washington is a city of famous museums--the Smithsonian, the National Archives, even the White House. But could those attractions be too famous? Visitors who are drawn to them almost automatically may not realize that the nation's capital boasts a second tier of smaller, more specialized museums that are equally fascinating and often possess certain distinct advantages over their bigger, better-known brethren. For starters, they are less crowded and often inexpensive or free. In those institutions, adventurous tourists can find colorful, offbeat exhibits highlighting world-class collections, in some cases the only ones of their kind...
...HAVE ANY PLANS FOR THE PONCHO? WOULD YOU DONATE IT TO THE SMITHSONIAN LIKE FONZIE'S LEATHER JACKET? Well, for right now, we're saving it for my archives...