Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...JULY 6, 1987 Vol. 130 No. 1 Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE 1898-1967 Editor-in-Chief: Henry Anatole Grunwald Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: J. Richard Munro President and Chief Operating Officer: N.J. Nicholas Jr. Chairman of the Executive Committee: Ralph P. Davidson Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...Since then it has been gradually dimming. One possible explanation was proposed by Astronomer Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He suggests that the decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth by Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, proposes that the neutron star that formed at 1987A's center when Sanduleak exploded has turned into an extremely rapidly rotating...