Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While they acknowledged the discovery as an important confirmation of long-standing suspicions that solid material exists outside the sun's family of nine planets, the experts said that evidence to support further claims--as some reports have--is largely circumstantial...
...experts agreed that the starbursts, at least those emitting X rays, are distant thermonuclear explosions. In effect, nature is setting off its own H-bombs. University of California Astrophysicist Stanford Woosley, the conference chairman, said: "It is as if an object 100,000 times brighter than the sun were there one second and gone the next...
Such cosmic violence, the scientists postulated, probably results from the stormy relationship between two companion stars that orbit each other. In this scheme, one member is an ordinary star like the sun. The other is a so-called neutron star; this is essentially a dead star that has run out of nuclear fuel. As its fires die out and the star's gases cool, they explode, with the remnants collapsing upon themselves, and the star shrinks to incredible density. Typically, such a star once had a girth of 100 million miles or more, but now is only...
...hours I broiled in the California sun at the US Festival waiting to get a glimpse of Bowie. I was crushed to discover that Bowie's Ziggy Stardust has been traded for a commercial disco style. Longing to hear Hang On to Yourself and Starman, I heard Let's Dance and other unmemorable tunes. Bowie was such an innovative man whose fantasies shaped the music of others. He should not forget his past...
Book of World Records as the longest movie series; the 31st Tora-San feature will be released in August. But none of these genres is likely to restore Japan to international prominence. Times look dark in the cinema of the rising sun...