Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Todd: Mozart, Stravinsky, Ray Charles, The Doors...
...Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque has been...
When players like Bernard Gilkey, Ray Lankford and Todd Zeile didn't have the Class-A team winning, Patkin was there to keep the crowd hanging around anyway...
...ordinary stars burn out, they may become neutron stars, dense bodies with gravity fields so powerful that a marshmallow falling into one would release as much energy as a thousand hydrogen bombs. If two of these bodies began orbiting each other, they would ultimately collide, leading to titanic gamma-ray blasts. Other researchers believe the bursts are due to especially large supernovas, great stellar outbursts called hypernovas...
...January, NASA will launch the HETE-2 satellite, which will study not only gamma-ray bursts but also their lingering afterglow of X rays and optical light. Three years later, a larger satellite with keener vision will conduct similar work in more depth. "Classical astronomers thought stars produced a steady emission in one wavelength," says Gehrels. "Now we realize we have all these flashing, transient things going on." Modern astronomers --with their modern machines--may at last determine what some of those strangest things...