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...already made hockey more accessible with the computer-enhanced puck that gives off a comet-like trail when slapped. On its football telecasts, Fox introduced not only a little score box in the corner of the screen but also the comedy team of Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long. They may be best taken in small doses, but a black-and-white barbershop scene that opened a pregame show in Fox's first N.F.L. season and featured the ex-players reminiscing with a barber about the old days of football was as clever and as humorous as TV gets, much less...
...Quake is coming. It's more like a second coming: Quake's forebear, the virtual reality, blast-'em-up sensation called Doom, is probably the most popular PC game ever created. Countless fans are currently searching 75 Websites looking for signs of Quake as if it were a visiting comet...
Hyakutake's status as a return visitor makes it ideal for amateur stargazers but a bit less enticing to scientists. Comets are believed to be leftover material from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Millions are still orbiting lazily in a halo called the Oort cloud, far beyond Pluto, where they are perfectly preserved. It's only occasionally that one changes orbit and plunges into the relative warmth of Earth's neighborhood. And the more often a comet returns to be heated, the more its structure and chemical composition are altered...
Although a truly primordial comet would tell them more about the original chemistry of the solar system, astronomers are still thrilled to see any comet this close. "We can't exactly reach out and touch them," says Green. "We have to wait for them to come...
...bright star overall, but its light is diluted over an area twice the size of the full moon; it's a glowing blob rather than a fiery point. There won't be much of a tail at first, but one will grow over the next few weeks, making the comet even more prominent through April. And after it fades from view later in the spring, comet lovers have a treat to look forward to next year: a second new comet, called Hale-Bopp. Astronomers are predicting--cautiously--that this one could be even brighter...