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Newly Completed 120-Inch Telescope Gets Initial Use in Searching Heavens Mt. Hamilton. Calif.-(Sci nce Service)-The newly com pleted 120-inch telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory has reach ed into the heavens for the first time. It showed that the nucleous of the great Andro meda nebula Is an astronomi cal "whirling dervish." The nucleus of the dra matic pinwheel nebula, a mirror-image of our own Milky Way galaxy, is rotating fast er than the outer portions, a fact not previously known. Stars at a distance of 25 light years from the center of An dromeda, known as M-31, make a complete trip around the galactic center every mil lion years. Stan farther from the cen ter of this nebula, which is located some 2,000,009 light years away, make a complete revolution only once in every 100,000,000 years. By com parison, the portion 4of the Milky Way galaxy in which the sun and its planets, in cluding earth, are situated is estimated to rotate around the center of the Milky Way only once in 200,000,000 years. Speed Astonishing The rotational speed of the Andromeda nebula nucleus is astonishing, astronomi c a 1 1 y speaking, Dr. A. E. Whitford, director of Lick Observatory here, said. Reasons for the discontinu ity of rotation in M-31 are as yet obscure, but the findings provide important new infor mation for astronomers, par ticularly those interested in the evolution of galaxies. The observation with the world's second largest tele scope was made by. Dr. Merle Walker, of the Lick staff, us ing an electronic camera de signed by Prof. Andre Lalle mand, of the Paris' Observa tory, and brought to Mt. 'Ham ilton by Prof. Lallemand and Dr. Maurice Duchesne. The new electronic camera will improve astronomical ob servations by a factor of be tween; 30 and 50 times, Dr. Whitford said. 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Mechanical "tune-up" opera tions will continue for some time, and several pieces of auxiliary equipment, in de sign or construction i stage, will not be completed for more than a year. - Dr. Whitford said the tele scope,., now in regular use, gave a fine image on its first night of use, and performed completely up to expectations. The huge telescope, which will complement the 200-inch telescope -at Mt. Palomar in searching the distant heavens, was started in 1947 when the California State Legislature made the first appropriations for the instrument that have now amounted to some $2, 500,000. Grinding and polish ing of the 120-inch mirror was started in 1953 and completed earlier this year. The final step in prepara tion of the huge mirror was performed some four months ago, when it was given an aluminum coating two - mil- Plionths of an inch thick. The new instrument will be used for two .general types of astronomical research, Dr. Whitford said. , One area of study will con cern faint and distant objects which could not be discerned with . other instruments . at Lick Observatory. Some of the closer galaxies will be re solved into individual stars, and some of the brightest of them can be studied in detail. Also, the light of galaxies on the- outer fringes of explored space will be available for analysis, and may yield in sight into unresolved ques tions of cosmology and the geometry of spare on the grand scale. MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfowJ, Or. C I Monday, Nov. 23, 1959 A The second general area will concern stellar objects that are relatively close. The astronomers will make studies in this area of young stars and stars that are in the pre birth stage. This information may fill out i the picture of the life cycle of matter in our galaxy that results in the crea tion of stars. ALL PRICES GOOD THRU NEXT SATURDAY! 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