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Clemente will soon be a 1,000-point scorer and Harvard's leading three-point shooter. Those records will have to find space on the trophy case next to the Ivy Rookie of the Year, the Player of the Weeks and last season's First Team All-Ivy selection...
That's not all. While each of these instruments trumps the Hale in light-gathering power, many are poised to outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been delivering astonishing snapshots of deepest space since it was refurbished in 1993. The orbiting observatory's nearly 2.5-m (8-ft.) mirror isn't all that powerful, but since it floats above Earth's constantly roiling atmosphere, the Hubble has been unrivaled in the sharpness of its images. No more. Using an ingenious technological trick to eliminate atmospheric blur, most of the new telescopes will soon achieve Hubble-quality focus...
...massive as Earth." Despite having so many planets in hand, Marcy and other astronomers haven't found anything like our home solar system: most of the planets found elsewhere are not only huge, but they career around in orbits that would fling smaller, Earth-like planets out into space--a discouraging start to the search for life in the galaxy, though it's far too early to give...
Will adaptive optics make space telescopes obsolete? Not entirely. Space is still the best place to take supersharp pictures in ordinary light. And some radiation--ultraviolet, for example, and some wavelengths of infrared--can't penetrate the atmosphere at all. Moreover, telescopes radiate infrared light of their own, which contaminates celestial images. That's why NASA's plan to launch a Next Generation Space Telescope by 2009 still makes sense. With an 8-m mirror of its own, NGST will be able to see distant galaxies, for example, that no earthly telescope could ever see through the glare...
...didn't catch Timon of Athens last weekend but still want to get your fix of Shakespeare, then check out Shrew, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, this weekend in the Adams House Kronauer Space. Reduced to a cast of four, this production promises to explore one of the Bard's best known and most controversial plays in a dynamic...