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...Cosmic Connections” heartthrob and member of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, answered FM’s rather-forward question. Let’s see. I would say that seven billion years ago a previous star that was the ancestor of the sun went through a supernova dispersing its newly-formed elements into the galaxy, and then the protostellar cloud that would later become the sun collapsed out of this material, and planets formed around that newly formed star, and those elements are the stuff of which we’re made today. That?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hey, Professor Charbonneau, how did your life begin? | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...start of 1986, in the 197th year of its existence, the American presidency is a political supernova. Rarely, if ever, has the office attracted so much attention in the nation and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: No Longer a Flawed Institution | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Fourteen thousand astronomical targets. Groundbreaking observations of Shoemaker-Levy 9’s 1994 collision with Jupiter. Pictures of the closest supernova in four centuries. Star luminosity measurements suggesting that cosmic expansion is accelerating. Deep field images showing uncountable galaxies in every direction. Stellar photos that found their way into everything from coffee table books to children’s television shows. The Hubble Space Telescope is responsible for all of these and much, much more...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: No Hope for Hubble? | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...need these resources in the working out of what happens when a star explodes. These supernova explosions are very interesting. Some collapse and become black holes, while others explode like a thermonuclear bomb,” said Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner...

Author: By Eduardo E. Santacana, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Will Use Supercomputers | 12/9/2004 | See Source »

...GLOBAL ADVISOR Holidays: Champagne supernova Kyrgyzstan: R and R in Bishkek Malaysia: Hip hotels in Langkawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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