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...observable universe-which may comprise almost all of the total universe -is a vast sphere approximately 1,000,000,000 light-years across (one light-year equals about six trillion miles). Human knowledge of the outermost fringes of this sphere is mostly due to the work of Astronomers Edwin Powell Hubble and Milton La Salle Humason, whose long looks into space are made possible by Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100-inch telescope. Even with this giant instrument, catching the spectra of far-off island universes has required all-night exposures for several nights...
...crews, a reduction in the reach was the first new point he stressed in a short demonstration on the machines. While formerly each man tried to get out as far as he could, in the new stroke he only has to reach until the oar is parallel to the outermost bar of the outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided into two sections...
...TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered by an amateur named Clyde W. Tombaugh while working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona...
...lift the whole thing from the back of the friend in front and raise the outermost fold on each side so that page four shows on top. A paper clip will hold the inner two folds to page one and guarantee reaching the field...
...human eye but suspected by a few human brains, some great unknown heavenly body was making its attraction felt. One of the human brains belonged to the late Percival Lowell, another to William Henry Pickering, both Harvard astronomers. In January 1930, true to Lowell calculations, a new planet beyond outermost Neptune and 3,680,000,000 mi. from the sun picked its way across a photographic plate in the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. It was subsequently called Pluto?the first two letters of the name being the initials of Percival Lowell...