Queer Facts about Star Gazers HAVE you ever seen a picture of a
square star? Why do astronomers live longer every year than
anyone else? Would you believe it is impossible to look through
the world’s largest telescope? Do you know astronomers don’t
always point their telescopes at the stars they really want to
observe? There are no square stars, of course, although the
scientists make photographs that show them as squares. They do
it with a special camera equipped with a traveling back that
moves up and down so the rays from separate stars are recorded
as square patches on the film. This makes it easier to measure
their comparative brilliance. This is a pretty amazing article.
It’s a concise summary of the big bang theory published only 3
years after Edwin Hubble made his famous observations about the
redshifts of distant galaxies. Yet it’s pretty much identical to
one you’d see today. Only a few details like the size of the
initial “atom” and the age of the universe seem off. Keep in
mind it took another 35