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...while the Hubble is good at locating faint celestial objects, the follow-up science is often done by observatories on the ground. In essence, the Hubble is like the small finder telescopes backyard astronomers use to pinpoint interesting objects for their full-size telescopes...
...many cases, though, the ground-based giants can find their own way through the universe. Geoff Marcy, for example, leader of the world's most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
...even this remarkable technology could become obsolete--along with the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, Chile and everywhere else--if the grandiose plans of the world's astronomers come to pass over the next couple of decades. Telescope designers are already thinking about the next generation of ground-based supergiant telescopes, devices that will range in size from 30 m (100 ft.) across to a staggering 100 m, or 330 ft.--a telescope mirror wider than the length of a football field. These will probably be scaled-up versions of the Kecks, using hundreds of individual mirrors aligned to make...
...crab and crouch in the brush, low to the ground in the woods of Michigan. Deep, deep in the woods. Patient, silent, dressed as trees, we stalk our prey. Not the mighty bear or the trophy buck but an animal far more dangerous, and dumber than a bucket of rocks. The poacher...
...holy for anybody" and put a permanent military force around it. Clerics can get in with a pass, and everybody else can take pictures from a distance. If they can't live with that, clear everyone out and destroy the site. Better a holy memory than a killing ground that perpetuates death by its very presence. PHIL BRADY Philadelphia...