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...annual college guide, released last month, U.S. News & World Report ranked Harvard second in its list of top universities, with a score of 93. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) came out on top with...
...Everybody relax and go back to your drinks." That may not be the way scientists usually talk to one another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer GEORGE DJORGOVSKI's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years (TIME, Aug. 30) wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected...
That insight might merely confirm that the Caltech astronomers have found an oddball quasar. Or it could herald the discovery of an entirely new and remarkable celestial object...
...Caltech team was reluctant to publish a report that would merely say, in Djorgovski's words, "Gee, look what we've found," without offering a viable explanation. So after three years of examining and re-examining the spectrum and vainly searching through scientific literature, the team at last decided to go semipublic...
...Everybody relax and go back to your drinks." That may not be the way scientists usually talk to one another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer George Djorgovski's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along...