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...Companion. The first white dwarf was found when mid-19th century astronomers noticed that Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, wobbles slightly, and theorized that it revolves around another star too close and dim to be seen separately. Later astronomers, using more sophisticated telescopes to eliminate the glare, finally picked out the other star nestling close to Sirius, and gradually accumulated some surprising information about...
...Nazi garrison at St. Nazaire got its answer soon enough. In the wake of the hit-and-run bombers that ominous night in March 1942, a motley armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were...
Mount Wilson was the world's best window on the universe, and Baade quickly won recognition as a superb observer. His first search was for supernovae, those incredible stars that burst like giant nuclear bombs and shine for a few weeks with the glare of 100 million suns. They happen in an average galaxy only once in about 300 years. But by patrolling distant galaxies with the 100-incher, Baade photographed many of them-and developed an explanation of their explosive physics...
Reddened Windows. The showdown began on Wednesday night, when Kishi summoned a Cabinet meeting in his official residence across from the white granite Diet building. As the 17 ministers assembled shortly after midnight, the windows were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
...first attraction, The Love of Sunya. As the audience settled back in the plush mohair seats, an actor in a monk's robe appeared on stage, spread his arms and said: "Let there be light." With his words, the audience rose, and no musicians, bathed in the glare of spotlights, played The Star-Spangled Banner...