Word: eyeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...emitted four years and four months ago. This explosion in the southern skies happened before our species evolved. It dramatically marks the death of a star." Adds Bjerklie: "We had been thinking of a cover story on our sun, but it has only a few little fluctuations -- nothing as eye-popping as this...
...flaw." He walked outside, looked up at the Large Magellanic Cloud and, without a telescope or binoculars, clearly saw the exploding star, or supernova. While hundreds of supernovas occurring in incredibly distant galaxies have been spotted by powerful telescopes, this was the first one visible to the naked eye since 1885. More important, at a distance of only 170,000 light-years, it was the brightest one to appear in terrestrial skies since...
...next supernova to be seen by the naked eye happened only 32 years later, in 1604, in the constellation Ophiuchus, and its best-remembered witness was Brahe's former assistant Johannes Kepler. Unlike most supernovas, this one was seen before it reached maximum brightness, so Kepler's descriptions of the blazing star are of particular interest to astronomers. His observations would have been even more detailed and valuable had they been made with a telescope. Unfortunately, the star's timing was off. The supernova lighted the night skies just a scant five years before Galileo made the first documented telescopic...
...incidents that have brought racism into the public eye, students said, were the anti-Black flier that was slipped under a door into a room where Black women were gathered last January, and a February campus radio station broadcast of jokes with racial slurs...
Jones said what the human eye can see "is like one note in a symphony," but the technology in the show will let people see a much wider range of colors than they can in traditional shows...