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...looking backward in time, because the light that they see from very distant objects started its journey millions of years ago. They see the light from stars that no longer exist, and chart strange, starlike objects that could hold the secret of how the universe began. Quasars (for quasi-stellar radio sources) are the most intriguing of these objects, the oldest and most brilliant things in the observable universe, and the sources of powerful and mysterious radio waves. Now astronomers have identified a new class of quasi-stellar objects shining out of the past...
...announcement said that Astronomer Maarten Schmidt of Caltech had discovered a quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) racing away from earth at 80% of the speed of light. That brief observation last week surely marks a significant milestone in the expanding reach of modern astronomy. Since speed is related to distance, the speed of Schmidt's quasar makes it by far the most distant object ever identified. Even more important, discovering the quasar meant that Dr. Schmidt had refined a delicate technique that will almost certainly find still more distant objects and lead man close to the edge (if there...
Donald Fleming's new edition of Loeb's Mechanistic Conception of Life explains both the former stellar position and the present eclipse of the biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924). When the first edition of this book appeared in 1912, Loeb ranged in poplar opinion with Galileo, Newton, and Darwin: he was a great-scientific innovator, who applied the principles of his science to the problems of ordinary men. This second edition of Loeb's most famous book-recalls an alternative to today's canon that the principles of scientific inquiry may be legitimately applied only to the defined problems...
What is a quasar? Answers were almost as numerous as the astronomers who turned up at the Montreal meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New theories about the nature of "quasi-stellar sources" have only generated new arguments; new observations have only enlarged the uncertainty. About all that the assembled scientists could agree on with confidence was that Dr. Maarten Schmidt of Mt. Wilson and Palomar observatories was the proper choice for astronomy's prestigious Helen B. Warner prize...
Deep in space, many galaxies have recently been found that are apparently exploding. These "quasars" (quasi-stellar objects), give off more energy than any other bodies in the universe. If McCrea is right, they have created their limit of new matter and are in the throes of stupendous parturition...