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... THE SKY AT NIGHT Pulsars in space by Patrick Moore In 1967 a remarkable discovery was made by a group of radio astronomers in Cambridge. They were using specialized equipment for a more or less routine investigation when they discovered strange radio ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT Mission to Amphitrite by Patrick Moore Everybody has heard of the bright planets—Mars, Venus and the rest. But few people, apart from astronomers, know the name of Amphilrite because although it is a member of the Solar System and moves ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT The Palomar giant by Patrick Moore Drive up the winding road to the top of Palomar Mountain in California and you will find one of the most famous buildings in the world. You come upon it almost without warning; it is a huge dome, as ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT Seasons of the planets by Patrick Moore Spring, summer, autumn, winter the seasons are so much part of our lives that it never occurs to us to question them. Yet how many people pause to reflect on just what causes them? The Earth’s ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT Observing underground by Patrick Moore Most of the world’s major observatories are built on the slopes or summits of mountains, but there is a remarkable observatory in South Dakota which is actually below ground. It lies at a depth of ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT Infra-red astronomy by Patrick Moore The early morning of January 26,1983, was an important one astronomically. At 2.17 am IRAS, the Infra-Red Astronomical Satellite, was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ...
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... THE SKY AT NIGHT The Dog-Star and its Pup by Patrick Moore “Twinkle, twinkle, littlestar. How wonder what you are, So runs the old rhyme. And stars do twinkle; there can be nobody who has not noticed it. Some stars twinkle more than others, but there ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Voyagers into In the late summer of 1977 two ambitious space-craft were launched from Cape Canaveral in the United States. These were the Voyagers, which were destined to visit first Jupiter and then the ringed planet Saturn ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT scientific work to begin. The Sun was found to be a radio source, which was predictable enough, but most of the sources lay far beyond the Solar System. Some were associated with what at first seemed to be faint bluish stars. In 1963 ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE ace The scale of s The first lesson to be leamt from astronomy is that you have to become used to thinking in terms of vast dist ances and immense stretches of time. Proper appreciation of what these values mean is probably ...