Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waving in the Breeze. The earth's magnetic field is formed into its comet-like shape by the solar wind, a stream of charged particles continuously emitted from the sun at velocities that vary from 670,000 m.p.h. to about 1,600,000 m.p.h. On the side of the earth that faces the sun, the wind compresses the field into a rounded shell that extends only about 40,000 miles into space. On the dark (or antisolar) side, the field is pushed into a tail that is hundreds of thousands of miles long and waves in the solar breeze...
...wish to state most emphatically that civilizations superior by far to ours are very much alive on other planets within as well as beyond pur solar system, and that their representatives do pay visits to us here on earth...
...engaged in space-related scientific research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
Gradually, as the accuracy of radio telescopes improved, the vague shapes in the sky contracted until it became possible for radio observers to direct optical astronomers to smaller and more manageable areas. In 1949, astronomers using these directions spotted the first visible object outside the solar system that was associated with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star explosion (or supernova) in the earth's Milky Way galaxy. Shortly afterward, they identified the first visible source outside the Milky Way: a large galaxy 50 million lightyears* from earth. In the next decade, as radio...
...explains. "All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years. When the light we see today left the farthermost quasars, the earth and the solar system had not yet been born. And we do not know with certainty what the quasar has done or where it has gone in the past 8 billion years. It may now be a galaxy or just some burned-out remnants...