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CHICAGO: Chicago commuters are facing up to forty minutes of added drive time between O'Hare Airport and downtown because of an unusual gawker's delay, reports TIME's Julie Grace. "Elston and Milwaukee Avenues have been dubbed 'Rodman reroutes' because of a giant billboard advertisement of Bulls player Dennis Rodman in a Bigsby & Kruthers business suit and tie which went up after Rodman was suspended for six games for head-butting a NBA referee. The suit is tailored to accentuate Rodman's tattoos in the most obvious way: the sleeves are cut off." Although all the attention...
...confirmed, it will be one of the most important in the history of astronomy. These galaxies will provide a missing evolutionary step between the big bang, when the universe began, and the mature cosmos that is observable today. Though there is no final proof yet, many astronomers find Elston's circumstantial evidence convincing. Says Patrick McCarthy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley: "This is a very good bet. If they can prove it, it will wipe out a number of theories on the formation of large-scale structure in the universe." Declared Hyron Spinrad, another Berkeley astronomer, more...
...find would have been impossible without a new generation of infrared detector chips developed by Rockwell International for the military. "Other astronomers have similar setups," says Elston, "but we got ours going first. The rest are undoubtedly going out to find these objects...
Primeval galaxies resembling the objects Elston found have been postulated by astronomers since the late 1960s. Most scientists regard the fact that he stumbled over the reddish sources of light within a randomly chosen tiny section of sky as evidence that the galaxies actually exist. Reason: similar bodies "should be all over the place," as Elston puts it, in our galaxy- filled universe. Moreover, Elston and his team took a second look at the suspected galaxies without the aid of the infrared device and found them about 20 times fainter in ordinary, visible light. The difference in brightness...
...after the big bang. If these galaxies come from that epoch, their light began its journey to earth 17 billion years ago, and they are likely to be the most distant objects in the cosmos. There is a chance, of course, that the objects are something other than what Elston suspects, and astronomers are racking their brains for a convincing alternative explanation. So far, they are stumped...