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... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Kowal’s new discovery Early in November, 1977, Charles Kowal of the Palomar Observatory in California was examining some photographic plates when he made a most remarkable discovery. The plate concerned had been taken with ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Are we getting lighter? Do you weigh the same today as you did yesterday? Even allowing for what we may call “individual influences” (for instance, whether one has or has not eaten a large meal) some modern scientists are ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Life between the stars How did life on Earth begin? This is a question which has puzzled scientists over the years. It has been generally thought that the first organic matter was born in a kind of “primeval soup”, and that ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE The new star in the Swan Cygnus, the Swan, is one of the most prominent constellations in the northern part of the sky. During evenings in autumn it is practically overhead, and it cannot be mistaken; its five main stars ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE The facts about flying saucers Who has not heard of flying saucers? In recent years they have been given the more dignified name of UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects, but the principles involved remain the same. And few ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Black Holes: fact or fiction? During recent years much has been heard about Black Holes, which—if they exist!—are the most bizarre objects in the entire universe. Postwar astronomers have become almost like Lewis Carroll’s ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE A long look at the weather Astronomy is the science of the stars; meteorology is the science of the weather. Obviously there are connexions between them, for the Earth is itself a planet, but today the link has become very ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE When stars grow old Anyone looking at me for a few minutes, or even over a period of a week or two, would see no detectable signs of ageing. Human beings age too slowly for that. On the other hand, what could be deduced ...
... ARE HIGHLY DEVELOPED IN THE MEN WHO FIGHT IN THE SKY BY NIGHT. (or fixation point), it is clear that to see an object best at night the eye must be directed slightly away from it. That is why the night-fighter pilot, if he sees the hazy form of aircraft ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE How far can you see? Some time ago I put what seemed to be a simple question to a group of people who were interested in science but did-not pretend to know much about it. I asked: “How far can you see without using optical ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT A new theory has been advanced of the origins and effects on the Earth of comets. Oort Cloud which have been “captured” by the planets. But a new, revolutionary theory proposed by two distinguished Edinburgh astronomers, Dr Victor Clube ...
... THE SKY AT NIGHT ’arkes Observatory's 210 foot wire dish has recently been used to locate a pulsar in the Large Cloud of Magellan. astronomers identified what is called the Vela pulsar. This stellar wreck —all that is left of a formerly very bright and ...