Word: supernovas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trek phenomenon is bursting again like a fresh supernova. A seventh feature film, Star Trek: Generations, which opened over the weekend, brings together for the first time the two Enterprise big shots: Shatner as the heroic, headstrong Captain Kirk of the original series and of every movie until now; and Patrick Stewart, the bald-pated Brit who succeeded him as the more cerebral Captain Picard in The Next Generation. The new film, a smashingly entertaining mix of outer-space adventure and spaced-out metaphysics, almost certainly marks the last movie appearance of the classic Trek crew (Kirk, in a secret...
...desire. It sold 200,000 copies -- a good showing for an independent release -- and won Phair critical adulation. On her second CD, Whip-Smart, Phair hews to her previous theme -- but where Guyville was an angry critique of relationships, Whip-Smart reveals a woman who appears much happier. On Supernova, for example, she sings with almost embarrassing exuberance about a lover who has proved to be ideal: "I have looked all over the place,/ But you have got my favorite face...
...supernova, however could have formed the black hole found by the Hubble telescope...
...also among the most puzzling. Two huge hoops -- each a few light-years in diameter -- and a brighter, smaller ring are surrounding the site of a supernova, an exploding star whose violent death was recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues believe, the terminally ill star had been gushing out great volumes of gas, which formed an hourglass-shape "bubble." (The bubble would ordinarily have been spherical, except that the gas around its equator was especially thick and slow-moving and thus stayed relatively close to the supernova.) Then, when the star blew...
Burrows is less confident about his explanation for the fainter, outer hoops: right next to the shining supernova is a very faint object that may be a tightly compacted neutron star, the remains of an earlier supernova explosion. If so, it could, like other neutron stars, be spewing out twin beams of fast-moving particles. The particles, slamming into the hourglass- shape gas cloud, could have created rings that glowed more brightly after the more recent supernova went...