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Clearly, more is riding on this show than a mere $8 million. For Jerome Robbins' Broadway is a sacred remnant of the musical at its mid-century peak -- a fusion of wit, precision, melody and high spirits -- that an aging generation of theater lovers miss terribly and want back. "We are in an era of high school production numbers and arias set to a backbeat," says Jule Styne, who wrote songs for five Robbins musicals. "A lot of people will see this show and realize what they've missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have...
When examining the spectrum of light energy emitted from Puppis A, however, "We found a funny little thing" that hinted to Kirshner that it might not be an average explosion remnant...
...very funny place inside the remnant," Kirshner says he noticed that chemicals released during the star's explosion which should have mixed together over the last four millenia were in fact still separated in space--as if they didn't have the time to mix yet. They discoved this by using several different filters when photographing the supernova, which bring out the separate bands of the elements, Kirshner says. "It still bears the imprint of" a more recent explosion than most data from Puppis A reveals...
Another puzzling thing about the supernova was there were no radio waves or X-rays emitted from it. "This would not be so odd, though, if there was something inside the other remnant," Kirshner says. "There's a good circumstantial case for a second supernova inside the other supernova. If it's really true it's the only case we know about...
...worked with supernovae for the past 17 years, ever since he started his graduate work in California. But even as a junior concentrator in Harvard's undergraduate Astronomy Department, Kirshner decided to focus on his present specialty, when he took a tutorial on the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant...