Word: discs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television news team happened to be on the scene when the fight occurred. Moreover, his prison record gives him-in the C. and W. world anyway-a suitably romantic aura. Tina arranges for him to do the things that any pop singer does to promote a record - tours, disc-jockey interviews. But before each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers...
...Observatory and the 91-cm. (36 in.) infra-red scope in Ames' Kuiper Airborne Observatory, realized how unusual it was. In simultaneous observations, the scientists discovered that the star, already ten times the size and 30 times the mass of the sun, was surrounded by a great glowing disc some 224 million km. (approximately 140 million miles) in diameter...
...could be. Astronomers generally theorize that stars and the planets that orbit them condense out of spiraling discs that are formed out of clouds of interstellar material. Thompson and Erickson believe MWC 349 is going through just such a process now. They think the star, which may be little more than 10,000 years old (the sun has been around about 5 billion years), is still developing. Some planets may have formed beyond the edge of MWC 349's luminous disc. They also believe more planets could form, closer to the star, as the disc condenses and cools...
...will give astrophysicists a chance to test their theories. The intensity of light from the disc has been diminishing by about 1% per month, which suggests that material in the disc is being drawn rapidly into the star. Eventually, the disc will disappear and all that will be left will be the newborn star, and any planets it may have spawned. Such a process can sometimes take millions of years. But scientists will not have to wait that long to see how MWC 349's birth turns out. At the rate at which the disc is disappearing, it will...
...Disc jockey; Detroit...