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...galaxy but from the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Mercedes Lopez-Morales and Alcestes Bonanos analyzed the position and speed of HE 0437-5439 and calculated that if it came from the Milky Way's core, it must have been traveling for 100 million years. Yet its color and mass put its age at 35 million years. The alternative is that it came from the LMC, which means it didn't have to travel so far. The scientists studied the composition of the star and found that it matched that of LMC stars--a sign that it's indeed...
...used animation as a way of accessing the imaginary,” Galison says. They worked intensively with Ruth Lingford, an animation professor at Harvard, to create a contrast between imaginary and literal realms of the secrecy system. “The search for weapons of mass destruction is completely real,” Galison says, in reference to a scene in “Secrecy” where archival footage of soldiers searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is intertwined with animation. “But people’s expectations of what they were going...
Cambridge, Mass...
...give away? Very few. On some level, there’s a limit to how many times people really can come.” Though the items printed at the Bow and Arrow Press can exude an aura of antiquated charm and elegance that sets them apart from the mass-produced posters one commonly sees around campus, the time commitment required to produce a poster at the press often discourages already overtaxed students.“It can take an average of five to six hours to create a poster,” says...
Cambridge, Mass...