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...respectable brightness literally overnight, and while its wave-front speed was high, its spectrum revealed the unmistakable hydrogen-bearing signature of a Type II. But when the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite reported a rapid drop in ultraviolet light, scientists began to wonder. Says Robert Kirshner, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "The spectrum we're seeing in the ultraviolet resembles the spectrum of a Type I. That's a puzzle." Admits Texas' Wheeler: "There are some funny features in this supernova...
Matthew H. Schneps, an associate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Christine Jones, an X-ray astronomer at the Center, used their five-year-old research project to create a splashy new kind of planetarium show, called "Image Processing: The New Astronomy...
...threat to the canal may be worsened by another consequence of deforestation. According to Donald Windsor of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the average annual rainfall in central Panama has decreased by as much as 10% since the turn of the century. "Because of deforestation," he says, "there is less evapotranspiration." And because less water rises into the air in vapor form, less returns in the form of rainfall...
This week Ronald Reagan will present the Presidential Citizens Medal to Yeager, Rutan and his brother Burt, 43, Voyager's designer. Voyager, which reportedly cost $2 million and took five years to build, could wind up in the Smithsonian Institution. There, it would rest alongside such other craft as Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Mercury space capsule, an inspiration for future record breakers...
...John Gotti is Artist Andy Warhol's fifth TIME cover since illustrating "Today's Teen-Agers" in 1965. The others: the Fonda family (1970), Michael Jackson (1984) and Lee Iacocca (1985). Like all TIME cover art, the Gotti print will be donated to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. The final selection was chosen from 30 different versions prepared by the artist, who tempered his affinity for vivid hues. "The colors Warhol used are rather somber and threatening," says Executive Art Director Nigel Holmes. "Unlike with Michael Jackson, you can't use bright colors with Gotti...