1. Robert Lin, telephone interview with author, May 20, 2004.
2. Quoted in Henry C. King, The History of the Telescope . Cambridge, MA: Sky, 1955, p. 37.
3. Quoted in J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson, "Galileo Galilei," School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, November 2002. www.gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk.
4. Quoted in King, The History of the Telescope , p. 75.
5. Quoted in King, The History of the Telescope , p. 123.
6. Quoted in King, The History of the Telescope , p. 123.
7. Quoted in King, The History of the Telescope , p. 129.
8. Quoted in Bath Preservation Trust, "William Herschel," 2001. www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk.
9. Quoted in Bath Preservation Trust, "William Herschel."
10. Isaac Asimov, Eyes on the Universe: A History of Telescopes . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975, p. 215.
11. Quoted in Wallace H. Tucker and Karen Tucker, The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986, p. 35.
12. National Radio Astronomy Observatory, "The Very Long Baseline Array," April 2004. www.nrao.edu.
13. Quoted in David Tenenbaum, "Three, Two, One, Contact," The Why Files: Science Behind the News, July 1997. www.why files.org.
14. Quoted in SpaceRef.Com, "Gamma-ray Bursts, X-ray Flashes, and
Certain Supernovae Are Related," November 2003. www.spaceref.com.
15. Tucker and Tucker,
The Cosmic Inquirers
, p. 3.
16. Quoted in Michael Klesius, "Super X-ray Vision,"
National Geographic
, December 2002, p. 43.
17. Quoted in Goddard Space Flight Center, "NASA's HETE
Spots Rare Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow," November 7, 2001. www.
gsfc.nasa.gov.
18. Quoted in Imagine the Universe! "NASA Detects One of Closest
and Brightest Gamma Ray Bursts," May 16, 2003. www.imag
ine.gsfc.nasa.gov.
19. Quoted in Spaceflight Now, "Study Reports Origin of Gamma-Ray
Bursts," May 17, 2002. www.spaceflightnow.com.
20. Quoted in Imagine the Universe! "Neutron Stars," 2003.
www.imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov.
21. Kelly Kizer Whitt, "Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Burst Detected," Astronomy.com, April 2003. www.astronomy.com.
22. Daniel Fisher and Hilmar Duerbeck,
Hubble: A New Window to the Universe
. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996, p. 26.
23. HubbleSite, "Telescope History: Vision Becomes a
Reality," 2003. http://hubblesite.org.
24. Quoted in David Whitehouse, "Hubble's Vision Is
Blurred," BBC News, April 2000. www.news.bbc.co.uk.
25. Quoted in Mark Carreau, "Hubble's Eyesight Is
20-20,"
San Francisco Chronicle
, January 14, 1994, p. C3.
26. Simon Goodwin,
Hubble's Universe: Portrait of Our Universe
. New York: Penguin, 1997, p. 16.
27. Quoted in Ed Bradley, "Hubble Future in Jeopardy,"
CBSNews.com, March 14, 2004. www.cbsnews.com.
28. Quoted in Bradley, "Hubble Future in Jeopardy."
29. Quoted in Bradley, "Hubble Future in Jeopardy."
30. Quoted in Laura K. Kraft, "Hubble and Keck Team Up to Find
Farthest Known Galaxy," W.M. Keck Observatory, February 2004.
www2.keck.hawaii.edu.
31. Richard Wainscoat, "Astronomy and Space Science: Monitoring the
Cosmos, Far and Near," State of Hawaii, 1998. www. hawaii.gov.
32. Quoted in W.M. Keck Observatory, "Two Telescopes, One
Vision," 2001. www2.keck.hawaii.edu.
33. Ron Hipschman, "SETI: The Radio Search," SETI@home,
2004. www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
34. Ron Hipschman, "The Center for SETI Research," SETI
Institute, 2003. www.seti-inst.edu.
35. Quoted in Matt Quandt, "GALEX Will Look Ahead to the
Past," Astronomy.com, April 2003. www.astronomy.com.
36. Quoted in Quandt, "GALEX Will Look Ahead to the Past."
37. Christopher Martin, telephone interview with author, May 25, 2004.
38. Quoted in Luci Sherriff, "Chocks Away for NASA's
Einstein Test,"
Register
, April 21, 2004. www.theregister.co.uk.
39. Leonard David, "Gravity Probe B: Delay in Space and
Time," Space.com, December 2003. www.space.com.
40. Alan Dressler, "About Origins," Origins, September 2003. www.origins.jpl.nasa.gov.
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: