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...Purcell and H.I. Ewen detected radio waves from hydrogen atoms in interstellar space. This "21 centimeter line" is used by radioastronomers to map galaxies...
Indeed, Chewbacca is a cluster of enigmas: Why isn't he off at his end of the galaxy looking for a mate? Has he been sold into slavery? Is that metal strap a fashion statement? A restraint device? Does he really enjoy interstellar space travel? Is it just a way to pay the bills...
Amen, a conspiracy buff who has penned a yet-to-be-released book on the Kennedy assassination, now has a plan to make Tulsa a jumping-off point for colonization of outer space. It includes a novel solution to overcrowded prisons: sending convicts on missions to build interstellar infrastructure. But Amen still must contend with football-star-turned-Congressman Steve Largent before the 21st century's Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria can set sail...
Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories. It wasn't quite fair even then; early works by authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke relied as much on clever plot twists and thought-provoking views of societal evolution as on visions of rocket ships and interplanetary travel. Still, there was sufficient truth for the stereotype to sting...
...cloud 25,000 light years from earth, a discovery that may help explain the formation of life. Radio astronomers from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, found faint traces of vinegar, or acetic acid, in a cloud of gas and dust named Sagittarius B2 North. Ammonia was discovered in interstellar space more than 25 years ago, which makes it plausible, according to one of the scientists on the Illinois team, that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic building blocks of life, form the proteins and DNA that...