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...naked eye. Since then it has been gradually dimming. One possible explanation was proposed by Astronomer Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He suggests that the decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth by Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, proposes that the neutron star that formed at 1987A's center when Sanduleak exploded has turned into an extremely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectacle Of Cosmic Surprises | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Cover: Photograph by Steve Liss; inset by Ian Marks -- Gamma/ Liaison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page MAY 18, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 20 | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...promptly ordered some of its satellites to do the same. On its way to a rendezvous with Neptune in 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft pointed its two ultraviolet-light detectors at the supernova. The Solar Max satellite turned its attention from its primary target, the sun, to measure the gamma rays emanating from 1987A. The International Ultraviolet Explorer began measuring the supernova's ultraviolet radiation. In Japan space officials hurried a newly launched satellite through its calibration tests so that it could begin detecting X rays emitted by 1987A's hot gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Brown women, whose names have not been released, accused sophomore David W. Krumsiek and junior Patrick J. Flanagan, both members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, of first degree sexual abuse after a Valentine's Day semiformal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fraternity Members at Cornell Cleared of Sexual Abuse Charges | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

Early this month anti-fraternity vandals painted and damaged the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. In addition, the The Daily Sun recently printed a petition signed by more than 300 women supporting the Brown women's right to publicly announce their alleged assault, Amster said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fraternity Members at Cornell Cleared of Sexual Abuse Charges | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

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