Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months since British astronomers announced the discovery of pulsars, scientists have done a brilliant detective job of piecing together the nature of the strange, regularly beeping radio sources. Their effort has been all the more remarkable because they have never actually seen a pulsar; all of their clues come from radio signals picked up by giant radio telescopes...
Good Reasons. In setting out to make a visual sighting of a pulsar, Astronomers John Cocke, Michael Disney and Donald Taylor defied the beliefs of more experienced astronomers who were certain that the strange objects would be too small and distant to be seen through terrestrial telescopes. Undaunted, they pointed the 36-in. telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory toward a small star in the Crab nebula, the glowing, cloudlike remnant of a supernova (stellar explosion) that was first witnessed from earth...
...exploded stars like the one that formed the Crab nebula; 2) a pulsar had recently been detected in the Crab by radio telescopes and 3) the Crab pulsar, or neutron star, beeps faster than any discovered to date. Thus it is presumably younger, hotter and brighter, and could be seen more easily than any other...
Astronomers do not yet know why the Crab pulsar flashes, but some suspect that its bursts of light are generated by charged particles in its intense magnetic field. Now that they have seen the light, scientists are attempting to take a clear spectrograph of the pulsar and to determine if the light itself is polarized. They are investigating a new report by astronomers at an observatory on Malta, who saw strange "ghost" flashes about 3° to either side of both the Crab pulsar and another nearby pulsar. With these new clues, scientists hope to be able to learn more...
Police speculate that the murder took place sometime Tuesday night. Police dogs were sent to the area to see if they could pick up a scent. Officers went through the building talking to residents in an attempt to learn if anyone had heard unusual noises or seen a stranger on the premises...