Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1948 — Page 43

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; SUNDAY, OCT. 31, 1948 IU Astronomers

The light which strikes the eye| left the nebula 875,000 years ago. If the light went out tonight, it/astronomers

noted.

PEERS INTO SPACE — Dr. Cuffey, Indiana University astronomy staff. draws a focus on a distant star with the Goethe Link Observatory telescope.

Unit Developed in Wartime Tells New Facts

About Most Remote Parts of Sky Yet Known

Bome 875,000 years ago the feeble light of the Great Spiral Nebula in Andromeda glowed in the sky. those of millions of other stars, danced on the ice and snow-covered | ent in efficiency the measurelandscape of what was to become Hoosierland. . Tonight, if the sky is clear, you can look overhead and see the heavenly body, the most distinct the naked eye can observe.

Among First To Use Ph

. on a continuous graph every slight fluctu-

Its rays, mingled with

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MODERN SCIENCE—Dr.-John- lewin THE HEAVENS. ABQVE—This is. what Dr. Cuffey

observed before he brought the ‘scope to bear on a single star to measure its intensity and color with a ation in the star's intensity. photo- electric multiplier tube. finest. Today the IU sky search- tor of the observatory. Night|recording chart. The chart is a 'rs are among the pioneers in the gfter night, in the cold confines|permanent record. Every fluctua1se of the Astronomical Photo-of the dome, these scientists tion of the star is marked in ink !lectric Photometer. train the sight of the 36-inch rel o the graph t istant : The unit surpasses by 25 per fecting telescope on some distan With the ins anit. the ‘a-

star. t 's intensity byl tronomers very accurately can fy o 3 star's intens not d Attached to the eyepiece is the'measure a star's intensity and/or either the human eys or pho O8"| bhoto-electric tube. The star is color. From these they can de-,

operates the galvanometer which records

Funneled Into Tube

(world that Indiana University known for years, but wartime reprobe from thelgearch developed the phofo-elec-would be another 875,000 years Goethe Link Observatory nearitric tube to a point of extreme Jt ig converted nto electricity aad before its disappearance would be Brooklyn,” Ind. Currently the department {sian integral part of equipment It is this vast, mysterious joining the ranks of the world’s|used to jam enemy radar.

raphy. The system has. been, . ..; on and the light is fun-termine the temperature, mass,

| neled into a multiplier tube. Here ge oo and distance from

| What practical application any |discoveries might have on the . {work-a~-day world is an unknown | The current courses through ae, oi0r Astronomic studies laid

the current amplified a million sensitivity. During the war it was jimes. PF :

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RESULTS NOTED—Studying the graph of a star's activity are (left to right) Dr. Cuffey,, Dr. Frank Edmondson, observatory director, and Dr. Irwin, The A is powerful enough to give the astronomers 10 million stars to observe and study. |

lished theory om the flow of eleo-| work 875,000 years ago. | trons in metal, Then Indiana , These probers of pin-point light |period. " have some 10 million stars upon|the great ice sheet in the. which to work. If they point to|giant elephants, their skin covered their the Great Spiral Nebula their with long, shaggy hair,

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