Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huchra and his colleagues conclude that astronomers came up with an incorrect value for Hubble's Constant because they limited their observations to relatively nearby clusters of galaxies--those less than 70 million light years away...
...clusters outside our supercluster--as far as 200 million light years away--Huchra determined a value for Hubble's Constant twice as large...
...observations also limit the distance to the edge of the universe to nine billion light years...
...burst was really caused by a "superbolt" of lightning 100 times more intense than a normal bolt. Vela satellites have previously observed such phenomena, mainly over the sea and particularly in the vicinity of Japan. But in all previous known instances, a superbolt has emitted a single pulse of light...
...bler-Ross's faith in Barham is unshaken. A friend, Deanna Edwards, says she attended two darkroom sessions in hopes of changing the psychiatrist's mind about Barham. In both sessions, her entity-guide "Pico" tried to solicit sex. Edwards says she ripped masking tape from a light switch and flipped on the lights, revealing Jay Barham wearing only a turban. "I never heard such screaming," says Edwards, who hastens to explain that it was not the sight of Barham that caused the alarm; the other participants believed that light destroyed an entity. Edwards was sure the demonstration...