"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Correction: It is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum. The 'Times' regrets the error."
NY Times, July 1969.

— New York Times

M82 Galaxy's Mysterious Radio Waves by Linda Moulton Howe

By JohnMiksits at Fri, 05/28/2010 - 9:42am

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1705&category=Science

I was listening to the radio program Coast to Coast this morning and heard about a mysterious object in M82.  http://www.coasttocoastam.com/   I believe this program often has off the wall articles, but the story I've linked is about astronomy.  The link above cuts straight to the story.