Show big E eye y e 1 to answer queries of science largest and most costly telescope will probe secrets secret s 0 of f ski skies es MT PALOMAR CALIF de bribed as an the world worlds largest and mot most costly scientific ent the mt ML palomar atory tory telescope will ww begin scanning the skies kie kle this pring spring the inch mirror and telescope comprising the cosmic eye in Is to peer one billion light year years out into space determine whether life exists on mars perhaps haps set a time and date for disintegration of the sun settle whether there Is an end to the universe or whether it Is without beginning B or end and t study tu 7 atoms in the great t heat ol 01 the stars start tar the public wont get a chance to see the huge telescope until sometime this summer the bacton ton piece of equipment Is so delicate that the number of workmen and scientists who are putting finishing details to it Is limited otherwise an excess 2 of b body ody heat might disturb the te term tern m mature pera ture inside the tho observatory D dome ome opens SO 38 poet feet the che 18 ton zoo inch glass mirror moved from the california statute of technology to the th palo mar observatory lat last november ow Is in place in the ton tele scope cope mounting the one million pound dome opens to the width of 30 0 feet it will b be through this crack that the eye will wiil peer at the cosmos the big telescope wm win make snap imp shots of the universe as tar far away I 1 as a billion light years twice thel the distance that any previous telescope has been able to pierce photographs will be clear not the dull and blurry iong long longtime time exposures customarily seen in observatories serva tories probe secret of mars man photographs may reveal whether the canals and dark splotches on mars blars mean that life exists on that distant planel planet many scientists claim that mars Is populated many others flatly condemn the theory the big eye Is expected to answer the problem scientists know thai that the sun nm is subject to violent convulsions that max max may presage its disintegration and death science clr cli wants to know whether the end of the sun will mean that the earth will be burned to a crisp or frozen solidly the big telescope may determine this the tho palomar photographs also will enable scientists to analyze chemicals on the stars and planets and to show whether venus cloudy atmosphere contains life giving oxygen or deadly carbon dioxide |