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...been difficult to find a newborn star because outer regions of the collapsing cloud hide the new star within. Ordinary light cannot penetrate the haze. The long-wavelength infrared and radio waves produced by a warming embryonic star can pierce it, however, just as a radar signal can cut through the densest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Embryo From a Collapsing Star | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...chose carbon monosulfide because it is a probe of the densest parts of these clouds." The molecule is most excited when it is most compressed. In the center of the cloud, says Lada, "we found that we were seeing carbon monosulfide in a very excited state." In the outer reaches, though, the molecules were much calmer. There was a dense core at the center of the cloud. It was also clear that there was systematic motion inside. Just as a train whistle is higher in pitch as it approaches than when it recedes, radio waves also vary in frequency according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Embryo From a Collapsing Star | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...about this one? Duck from outer space meets girl. Duck and girl become best friends. Duck saves earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love in the Animal Kingdom the Fly | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Plan Nine from Outer Space, also Robot Monster Call for Schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti, a girl whose perfect, impersonal beauty has to advertise something other than herself, the black void of outer space, a paper clip, crinkled silver Mylar and bristling sheaves of fiber-optic cables and the Ford in your future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memories Scaled and Scrambled | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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