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Keck is only one of many telescopic brobdingnagians now in various stages of development around the world. In Tucson, scientists at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (N.O.A.O.) and the University of Arizona are working on still another novel optics scheme: four 295-in. mirrors placed on a common mount. Each mirror would be 2 ft. thick but largely hollow, shaped like a honeycomb. The four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope...
...object discovered by McCarthy and his colleagues-Frank Low of the University of Arizona and Ronald Probst of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson-has been dubbed VB 8B and is some 600 million miles from the star it orbits. It is visible only through powerful telescopes. Although it is nine-tenths the size of Jupiter, its mass is ten to 50 times greater. It is also a good deal warmer: 2,000° F, in contrast to Jupiter's -240°, or as Gatewood put it, "as hot as a Pittsburgh blast furnace...
...evidence that planets like earth and its eight celestial cousins in the sun's solar system may be common in the Milky Way. In a new, highly detailed photograph of Beta Pictoris, a neighborly 293 trillion miles from the sun, Bradford Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson and Richard Terrile of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have discovered that the star is encircled by a dim disc of gas and solid particles. The astronomers believe that those particles may be the signs of newborn planets and worlds in formation. The spectacular image is the first...
...years old, in contrast with the 4.5 billion years of earth. The most primitive form of life did not appear on earth until 1 billion years later. Some astronomers, moreover, are skeptical of the pair's planetary speculation. Says Fred Gillett of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson and a member of the IRAS team: "It would be impossible, using this technique, to detect large bodies...
...memorial service will be held at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The date has not yet been determined...