Word: supernovas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick. "The predictions weren't taken seriously at first; it just didn't make sense." In fact, what physicists scoffed at turns out to be one of the most energetic objects in the universe -- a form of neutron star left over from a supernova, so tightly packed that its magnetic field is a trillion times stronger than the sun's. If we could have harnessed that single wave of energy, it would have been enough to "power all of human civilization on Earth for a billion billion years," according to Kevin Hurley...
Reiss, who conducted graduate research at Harvard, is a member of the High-Z Supernova Team, a group that includes Kirshner and scientists from Chile, Australia and Washington...
...supernova are dimmer than you would expect if the universe was expanding at a constant rate," Kirshner says. "They are about 25 percent dimmer than you would expect...
...still generating 10 million times more energy than our sun, radiating more in six seconds than the sun does in a year. UCLA scientists, who are charged with interpreting the pictures, say that guarantees the Pistol Star a brilliant death a few million years from now, in a massive supernova. More like a Rock Star, perhaps...
...praise and pleas were a river carrying him swiftly past all the rules and rites that attend a race for the presidency. Pundits talked of his star quality, the ability to make a room go quiet when he walked in. But it was not the bright beam of a supernova, a demagogue's dazzle. It was more infrared, the kind that warms without burning. He seemed comfortable, respectable, most of all normal--too normal to run for the White House, which meant that he became the most popular candidate on the landscape without lifting a finger or spending a dime...