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What happens when the immovable object meets the…well, immovable object...
...more than anyone else, deserves a throne of his own. Some aren't so sure. "Yes, Middleton wrote some great plays: The Changeling is a better play than many of Shakespeare's," says Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "And there's no doubt he's been unluckily marginalized. But I object to the idea that he alone is Shakespeare's equal. Christopher Marlowe was as good at tragedy as Middleton. And the best comedies of the age are probably Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts." Taylor welcomes the debate: "That...
Every so often, though, one is nudged out of orbit by a chance encounter with some other object; it plunges in toward the sun, heats up and releases gases and dust that form a halo and stream away in a long, magnificent tail...
Comet 17P/Holmes is one of the small ones that usually doesn't put on much of a show - or hasn't since it was first discovered in 1892. A couple of weeks ago, however, this insignificant object formed a huge halo (officially known as a coma, from the Latin word for hair), which quickly swelled to the size of the planet Jupiter. And puny Holmes, a million times brighter than it had been a couple of hours before, suddenly became visible to the naked eye. And so it remains: You can see it yourself, without binoculars if you use this...
...Malcolm S. Hicken, who led the study, said that the explosion was also extremely luminous for an unusually long time. “It stayed bright a lot longer than the allowable range that is used,” Hicken said. “This would be a weird object even if we didn’t have this early spectra [carbon evidence].” Astronomers believe that nearly all of the elements as heavy or heavier than iron are created in supernova explosions like these. That includes Earth and all the iron found...