Word: astrophysicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hypothesis: SK-69 202, like other stars in the LMC, contained relatively little metal, which theorists now think may keep the outer shell of even older stars from expanding fully, thus making it glow blue rather than red as it plunged toward its thermonuclear crisis. Said University of Chicago Astrophysicist David Schramm: "It's clear that while the core of the star is understood well, the surface...
...decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth by Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, proposes that the neutron star that formed at 1987A's center when Sanduleak exploded has turned into an extremely rapidly rotating pulsar that is leaking energy and illuminating the surrounding debris...
...wasn't there before the supernova. It's not a star. It's not a second supernova. I would quit astronomy and go live on a mountain as a hermit if two supernovas went off at the same time that close together." Cracked University of Colorado Astrophysicist Richard McCray: "Once again, nature has been more imaginative than the astronomers...
NCSA, one of five regional supercomputer centers established since 1985 by the National Science Foundation, is rapidly emerging as a leader in scientific graphics. Last year, for instance, Artist Donna Cox and Computer Scientist Ray Idaszak helped Caltech Astrophysicist Charles Ross Evans produce a short videotape depicting what in theory would occur in the collision of two neutron stars. To the untrained eye, the colliding stars look more like exotic flowers than a cosmic catastrophe. But the colors all have a quantitative meaning: areas colored red are ten times as dense as yellow ones, and yellow represents 100 times...
...leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution in the making...