Show When Sunspots Develop Scientists i I At Mount Wilson Nilson Observatory Receive News in 8 Minutes Through Huge Lens I t t Light Traveling Miles a Second Carries Scenes of Past By EVERETT TIPTON Associated Press Staff Writer PASADENA Ca Cal Feb 11 When 11 When the sun develops a new spot astronomers astronomers astronomers mers at Mount Wilson observatory get the news within eight minutes It H Is flashed Hashed to them by light traveling traveling trav trav- eling miles a second If some cataclysmic disaster should happen to Pluto the recently discovered anc and most distant planet the watchers atthe at atthe atthe the observatory a branch o of at the Carnegie Car Car- Carnegie negie institution of Washington could learn about It in a half to three of an hour They can keep well posted on events in the solar system of at which the earth sun and planets are a part parL But a swifter means of communication tion must be discovered if It the world is to keep informed on current happenIngs happenings happenings hap hap- among the stars of ot its own island universe and of other sImI almi lar star systems farther tarther out In space pace TRAVELS FAST Light travels miles a year and radio messages can go no faster even if someone were found in theother the theother theother other universes to send them Alpha the nearest star in the earths earth's universe is four and one one- third light years away and as astronomers astronomers astron astron- omers peer farther into space they find themselves in effect looking lookingback lookingback lookingback back Into the ages of the mammoths and dinosaurs Dr Edwin Hubble using the inch telescope at Mount Wilson the most powerful po yet constructed has photographed nebulae other island universes which are so far tar away that thai light leaving them years ago is just now reaching the earth In observing nebulae he said we ve Ve are arc witnessing scenes and events which actually occurred In past geologic geologic geologic geo geo- logic ages The nearest of them all the clouds are arc photographed photo photo- photographed graphed in the light which left them more than years ago We see them as they were back in the great ice age The conspicuous spiral nebulae belong belong be be- long to the pliocene age while those at the extreme limits of the observable lIe ble region arc are Looking at the clouds Dr Hubble sees them as they were at the time the great prehistoric elephants elephants ele ele- roved the earth Peering farher farther far- far th her ther r into space he sees a nebulae cluster In the constellation of at Coma as they were in the age of dinosaurs 45 to 50 million years ago At the very limit of at the telescope ic le photographs nebulae as they ap ap- eared before there were men or animals animals ani ani- animals mals on earth If It there was life Ute in our world years ago said Dr J. J A. A ComI Com Corn I Istock stock associate director of the Los Angeles museum it was unicellular like bacteria Conservative geologists do not agree that it was present evenin even evenin evenin in this low form When the proposed inch telescope telescope tele tele- scope is installed Dr Hubble expects to be able to witness events in outer space which happened while the earth still was warm |