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Citation: "A stellar force in science who has made a neighbor of the galaxies...
Oort was hailed: "A stellar force who has made a neighbor of the galaxies...
...pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
...device, an infra-red stellar photometer, picks up and records electrically infra-red radiation with wave lengths three to four times longer than those of visible light. The Milky Way is lens-shaped, and ordinary visible light cannot penetrate the great clouds of interstellar dust that obscure the galactic center...
Basically, the stellar photometer is a new application of lead sulphide cells, and the photoelectric effect upon which it depends is similar to that in an ordinary exposure meter. The chief mechanical difference lies in what Dr. Miczaika describes as a "chopper," which eliminates background light...