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John Charles Polanyi
At about eight o’clock on a Thursday night in 1956, John Polanyi walks into the janitorial closet he calls a laboratory. The young University of Toronto lecturer can’t expect much more; he isn’t even an assistant professor yet. Polanyi’s graduate student, Ken Cashion, who is wearing one of his many short-sleeved Hawaiian shirts, says, “Well, I think we’re ready for another run.”
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Q:How do astronomers know the true position of stars? When astronomers show us pictures of the Great Wall (or any celestial map for that matter), are they the 'true' position of those stars and galaxies? The light reaching earth may be several hundreds, thousands or millions of years old...the stars have travelled in that time. Do astronomers correct for the star's motion to show where they actually are now when drawing a map?
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