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News Editor Matthew H. Joseph '88 Night Editors: Elsa C. Arnett '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Copy Editor: Kate Gace '91 Editorial Editor: Abby M. McGanney '87-'88 Features Editors: Andrea E. Monfried '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 Photo Editor: Terry R. Roopnaraine '90 Business Editor: Willa F.H. Berghuis...
...Blanc some 4 1/2 hours earlier. They will examine the data further this week at a meeting in Wisconsin. In any case, Bahcall is ecstatic. "I think this is almost surrealistic," he says. "It's hard to believe I'm actually awake." Agrees University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "There have been smoking guns, but we've never seen the act committed before...
...week. (While it is clearly visible in the Southern Hemisphere, even Hawaii is too far north for much of a view.) The star will be the brightest supernova observed since 1604 and the only one visible to the naked eye since 1885. Says University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "This is probably the most important thing that's happened in astronomy since 1604. It finally gives us a way of testing ideas about how stars and galaxies work and how abundances of heavy elements are created." The reason for the superlatives being expressed by Arnett and other astronomers...
...almost exactly the supernova's position and therefore possibly the star that exploded, is a blue supergiant, rather than the red supergiant predicted by theory. Astronomers are still looking for evidence of a previously undetected red supergiant in the same area. "There's a lot of confusion," says Arnett. "We have had so little data on supernovae. We have pieces of the puzzle, but they don't all fit together the same...
...finance the first issue, Gove and the three other officers on the magazine's staff--Paul H. Arnett '87, Ian D. Highet '88, and Sean A. Cote '87--applied for a $2000 grant from the Undergraduate Council, Gove said. Gove said that they hope to pay for subsequent issues with advertisements...