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...show features "image processing," the method developed by the scientists to turn invisible electromagnetic waves from galaxies into vivid colors visible to the human eye. With image processing, computers transformed radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays into bright graphics of stars and planets...
Cover: Illustration by Nigel Holmes; photographs, clockwise from top, by Dirck Halstead, Brad Markel -- Gamma/ Liaison and Dennis Brack -- Black Star
...Santa Cruz, "everyone with anything to look with is looking at it." Every optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is trained on 1987A; a newly launched Japanese satellite is scanning it for X rays emitted by the supernova's hot gases; the Solar Max satellite is looking for the gamma rays characteristic of very energetic explosions; and another spacecraft, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, has already made observations of the explosion's ultraviolet radiation. These indicate that the star's atmosphere, which astronomers have determined is exploding outward at a speed of about 36 million m.p.h., is already cooling...
...Gamma Delta fraternity--commonly called Fiji--has sent a letter to The Cornell Daily Sun stating that members would refuse all comment on the matter, a reporter for the Daily Sun said this week...
...related incident, two other Phi Gamma Delta fraternity members were charged with serving alcohol to the two underage students who have claimed Krumsiek and Flanagan abused them...