Tenacity of Astronomers

Observing During A Missile Strike.

> Started exposure at 21h 44m GMT.
Flying bomb exploded very close and shifted star in declination out of the field. Star recovered and exposure restarted at 21h 47m GMT.
> Just after starting the second time, a second flying bomb exploded. This was more distant and though it shifted image from the [spectrograph] slit, star did not go out of field and was quickly recovered.
> Exposure ended 22h 07m GMT.

The Search for Cosmic Dawn

Galaxy Hunters

"For a few weeks I dreamed about winds and thought about winds while I was eating my cereal in the morning and while I was in the shower and while I was Rollerblading to work," says Adelberger

Winning the Cosmic Lottery

Amateur Astronomer Witnesses
Live Action Supernova Explosion.

> They immediately realized that Buso had caught an extremely rare event — the initial burst of light from a massive supernova explosion. According to Bersten, the chances of making such a discovery are between 1 in 10 million and 1 in 100 million.

Ludwig Boltzmann

"Speak the truth, write with clarity, and defend it to your very end."

In a dramatic epilogue to his life, Boltzmann’s theory achieved the deserved breakthrough and acceptance among scientists only shortly after his death, with the help of Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Both scientists realized their potential; Planck had been doubtful for a long time but in the end had to succumb to Boltzmann’s methods as he failed to find another way to prove his own radiation formula.