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...older pictures. Stepping out into the clear mountain air of the Chilean coastal range, the University of Toronto scientist reverted to a technique now used only rarely by professional stargazers: he looked up at the sky. There, in the fuzzy patch of light known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, was the spot. Says Shelton: "For more than three hours, I tried several logical explanations. It took me a long time to actually accept that what I had just seen was a supernova...
...supernova it was, a massive star dying in an explosion so violent that for a few weeks it will outshine hundreds of millions of stars put together. Its home, the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a satellite galaxy, or island of stars, that lies just beyond the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy, some 170,000 light-years from earth. (A light-year, the distance light travels in a year, is roughly 6 trillion miles...
...closed session this week, but is likely to put off a vote, possibly until all congressional investigations of the Iran-contra affair are concluded. That would be a "solution" satisfactory to nobody; Gates would be running the CIA as acting director, probably for many months, but with a cloud hanging over...
...smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...
...Amboseli, under the snow-covered dome of Mount Kilimanjaro, a herd of elephants moves like a dense gray cloud, slow motion, in lumbering solidity: a mirage of floating boulders. Around them dust devils rise spontaneously out of the desert, little tornadoes that swirl up on the thermals and go jittering and rushing among the animals like evil spirits busy in the primal garden...