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...experienced astronomers who were certain that the strange objects would be too small and distant to be seen through terrestrial telescopes. Undaunted, they pointed the 36-in. telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory toward a small star in the Crab nebula, the glowing, cloudlike remnant of a supernova (stellar explosion) that was first witnessed from earth...
...first inkling that pulsars might not be reliable timepieces came after Cornell University astronomers at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, trained their 1,000-ft. radio telescope on a newly discovered pulsar in the Crab Nebula, the glowing remnant of a supernova-or stellar explosion-that was seen from earth in A.D. 1054. Unlike most other pulsars, which have relatively low repetition rates (between one and four per second), the new find was ticking about 30 times per second. Carefully measuring the pulse rate in October and then again in November, the astronomers found that it was slowing down by about...
...stellar performance should ensure continuation of the $321 million OAO program, which in the next three years is scheduled to launch three more observatories. Since April 1966, when a $69 million OAO went dead in orbit be fore it could return any useful information, NASA scientists have been aware that another failure might well spur Congress into cutting off the program's remaining funds...
...Yale's stellar halfback Calvin Hill and three of his teammates were admitted to the Eli infirmary yesterday with cases of the Hong Kong...
...approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick frequently focuses our attention to one side of the wide screen, then introduces an element from the opposite corner, forcing a re-orientation which heightens our sense of personal observation of spontaneous reality...