Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gotta go, go with a bang. That's what Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 did last July. Nearly two dozen mountain-size chunks of this fragmented interplanetary wanderer slammed into Jupiter, creating 2,000-mile-high fireballs and sooty smudges on the planet's cloud tops that were visible from backyard telescopes. Scientists learned much about Jupiter's atmosphere, about comets, and even about how a similar impact on earth might have killed off the dinosaurs. For most onlookers, though, it was just a fantastic show...
...Hubble Space Telescope surprised scientists yet again by giving them their first look at the earliest galaxies, born only 1 billion years after the presumed Big Bang. The galaxies were remarkably mature and well-developed for their cosmically young age, suggesting that they evolved more quickly than previously thought...
...scientists' method of calculating the universe's age is based on the assumption that it has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. If the age estimate is wildly wrong, then there could be a flaw -- possibly a fatal flaw -- in the Big Bang theory...
...task ahead is to make more precise estimates of the universe's age. If it seems close to 12 billion years, then reasonable adjustments to current theory may save the intellectual foundation of astrophysics. But if the age appears to be more like 8 billion, then the Big Bang may be shot...
...liveliest art. Kael didn't teach you how to look at films -- descriptive consideration of a director's visual style was not her forte -- but she sure taught you how to feel about them. The titles of her critical collections (I Lost It at the Movies, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Going Steady, Deeper into Movies, Reeling, When the Lights Go Down, Hooked, Movie Love) document her sumptuous passion for film. Her hyperactive intelligence wanted movies to speak up, move fast, go crazy, make her swoon. She needed pictures to do for her what her reviews did for her readers...