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Some 170,000 years later, on that minor planet, man had evolved, developed technology, built great cities and, in an effort to better understand his place in the universe, developed great instruments that could peer deep into space. It was not until then, on the night of Feb. 23, 1987, that the first light emitted by the exploding star, having traveled a billion billion miles through space, finally reached the earth. Some of the light passed through the lens of a 10-in. telescope at Las Campanas Observatory on a windblown 8,000- ft. mountaintop in northern Chile...
...long it takes for a pulsar to develop is one puzzle 1987A may help answer. In addition, says Taylor, scientists would like to learn what kind of supernovas make pulsars. "We have a good idea that stars between eight and 15 times the mass of the sun are in the right range," he says, "but that is still somewhat speculative...
...Democrat, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a lot to say, so he stocked up on throat lozenges. In a series of speeches in the Senate, he addressed one of the most important arms-control questions today: Does the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty permit the U.S. to develop and test a space-based Star Wars system...
Thus when it voted 88 to 2 to give the treaty the status of law, the Senate knew what it was doing: ratifying an explicit ban on the development and testing of space-based, exotic ABMs -- precisely the type of SDI system that the Reagan Administration now argues it can develop and test under its broad interpretation of the treaty. If the Administration persists in its policy, Nunn warned, it risks a "constitutional confrontation" with the Hill and a congressional "backlash" against funding...
...will do everything we can to protect and improve parking near MGH," he said. "We also wanted to see if we could develop an income stream to help fill the cracks left by the federal government...