Clearer yet."Weighing In on a Star: A stellar size limit" (SN: 3/12/05, p. 164) includes three images of the Arches cluster near the center of the Milky Way Milky Way, the galaxy of which the sun and solar system are a part, seen as a broad band of light arching across the night sky from horizon to horizon; if not blocked by the horizon, it would be seen as a circle around the entire sky. , each taken with a different telescope. I'd be interested to know what the three telescopes are. JOHN MCKEE, BRUNSWICK, MAINE In the trio of progressively sharper (left to right) images, the leftmost left·most adj. Farthest to the left: in the leftmost lane of traffic. Adj. 1. leftmost - farthest to the left; "the leftmost non-zero digit" one was taken in 1994 with a 3-meter telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, the middle image was taken in 1996 by the 10-m Keck 1 telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, and the rightmost right·most adj. Farthest to the right: in the rightmost lane of the highway. Adj. 1. rightmost - farthest to the right; "in the rightmost line of traffic" picture was taken in 1997 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is a scientific instrument for infrared astronomy, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), operating from 1997 to 1999, and from 2002 to the present. .--R. COWEN |
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