Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Blast poses Puzzle mystery Star lights the sky by Kathy Sawyer the Washington Post Washington the Supernova discovered 11 Days the closest to Earth in nearly 400 has turned into a deepening Stellar mys Tery it int behaving As expected and astronomers cant figure out what Star is blowing because the event took place so near the astronomers had pictures of exactly what existed in that same position in space before the explosion one particularly Bright a Blue vanished in the explosion and was assumed to be dying becoming a new data from an orbit ing Telescope indicates that the Blue supergiant is still there alive and visible in ultraviolet it was merely being concealed by the brilliance of the Accord ing to astronomers at a hastily convened Nasa conference at Goddard space flight Center in this and other unexpected twists in the drama of Stellar which actually occurred years had the scientists talking of rewriting the textbooks on some other Star the mystery is what kind of said Robert Kirshner of the Harvard smithsonian Center for astrophysics in indications Are that whatever Star blew it was smaller than the experts had be he valuable Kirshner is directing the scientific observations of the Supernova by the orbiting Telescope known As the International ultraviolet a Goddard the 18inch Tele nine years is the largest now operating in its observations Are valuable because most of the ultraviolet Light coming from the Supernova is blocked by earths atmosphere and does not reach the observatories in South Africa and Australia that Are studying the the Star that exploded cant have been brighter than the Blue super Kirshner otherwise we would have seen it before the explosion the guess is that some other Star hidden in the Glare of that Bright Sun the Blue giant did sex most astronomers had thought the exploding Star was at least eight times the mass of our but the pre explosion pictures of that area of space do not show any other such Large the scientists such massive stars generate a lot of Energy before they blow Kirshner where was that Luminous Star it was too dim before it the evolution went too it didst get As Bright As expected All argue for a smaller Star at the time of the he knocks Down Roger Chevalier of the University of Virginia presented data suggest ing that the exploding Star did not have a lot of material around which knocks Down the theory that it had been a massive Star that had lost its or mass in a Stellar so that makes the mystery a Little Kirshner astronomers have described this explosive death of a Star As a Uncein lifetime oppor it is located in the Large magellanic a Galaxy that orbits the Milky Way at a distance of Light years from Earth a stones throw by astronomical Stan this Means that the Light from an event there years travelling at Miles per is just reaching the Supernova is the brightest and closest to Earth since Kepler Supernova in which occurred even closer to in our own Milky the new the brightest seen in the history of modern Astron has been designated Supernova Shelton after Ian the University of Toronto Astron Omer who discovered the Supernova 24 while working at Las Cam the Supernova has puzzled Astron omers by stabilizing in recent Days and has failed to increase in Bright Ness As rapidly As As a the scientists have been unsure whether the explosion has peaked too or will Blaze More brightly Shelton has cautioned that the explosion is evolving about five times faster than the new data threw cold water on some of the calculations the Astron omers have been preparing on us in some cases for events have moved so rapidly that some of the charts and graphs they presented in projector slides had been drawn in haste with crayons the night ignorance abounds Kirshner Veteran Musher acidic radio insulted oldsters air Mutual dislike Norman is the oldest competitor in the id Tarod dogsled race Over a route from Anchorage to Vaughan is no stranger to Lon distance he drove on Admiral Richard Byrds South pole journey in Pretoria orders probe of Chil by buddy Nevins fort Lauderdale news caustic Miami radio talk show Host Neil Rogers brought his on Theair Battle against the elderly to this retirement Community yesterday and was on the receiving end of the barbs he usually tosses Rogers did his top rated w1n2 940 am broadcast live from the Diplomat mall in front of 800 mostly supportive but he ran into some vocal bitterly angry that he has accused located just North of of being Home to prunes responsible for some of the most subhuman behaviour known to i Hope you never live to be a senior shouted Betty of i should live so Long to see him he stinks the Way he talks about old Morty told one sign held aloft in the crowd read Goodyear Send the Blimp so they sent you in Hes a flaming a Fay Gelesh yiddish for said Hallandale vice mayor Arthur Sonny in 67 and in better shape then but not Rogers shot you fat yelled Harold of Why dont you use your own name Are you ashamed of being jew ish radio name see what Ive been saying quipped who said he changed his name because Nel son Roger Behelfer didst go Over Well on the at the Side of the stage set up in the Middle of the mall stood Rogers 73yearold Mildred ill just be glad when he gets out of Here the she guarded by six uni formed several undercover Hallandale police had received written and phoned death threats before the it is just a radio some politicians and prunes Are taking it too said whose daily shows top the highly competitive Gold coast talk mar the openly Gay broadcaster was backed by most of the seniors who went after Rogers on a microphone were pelted by packets of Sweet v Low or shouted Down by the talk show hosts habitual Jaywalker Rogers has accused cheap skate seniors in Hallandale of stealing Sweet n Low and Flat Ware from restaurant he also says they have appalling driving habits and Are habitual his constant pounding away at the seniors Complete with a radio spot titled Hallandale vice in which a Don Johnson soundalike arrests elderly Resi dents for jaywalking and stealing Sweet n Low has hot a responsive nerve with younger listeners in this retirement he tells the they drive too slow and think they got every thing coming to them on a Silver said Ira who came from Miami for the even some older Hallandale residents agreed with half the older people Here Are said Abe he Doest bother me because he is telling the but the Hallandale City com Mission has urged Rogers Spon sors to cancel advertising on the and Hallandale City Man Ager Intindola charge that Rogers baited the elderly to boost his Johannesburg a police officials in South Africa ordered an investigation yesterday into accusations of brutality against detained Black the warned newspapers not to print an advertisement urging the government to release All two particular cases involving a 12yearold boy and a 15yearold girl Are said the police commissioner the allegations concerning these two children Are horrendous and of such a nature that i have instructed a senior officer to investigate every aspect up photo workers haul anchors ashore after they were aced entry discovered to Halifax old anchors dredged from Halifax Harbor Halifax up four Rusty old anchors including one that May have belonged to the dreadnought the Royal Ca Nadian navys first ship were dragged from Halifax Harbor on the weighing several Hundred along with about 20 tonnes of Anchor were discovered acc Dently on thurs Day by hauling up old con Crete mooring blocks off the naval dockyard one of the anchors is estimated to be More than a Century old but its wooden crosspieces remains Grahm Mcbride of the maritime museum of the Atlantic said the wooden stocked admiralty pattern probably dates from a Man War or a frigates from the late to the mid one of the Al Metal anchors with a folding Iron Stock is the Type used in the he and it was found in the area where the dreadnought used to Halifax had been a British naval base since its but the Niobe commissioning 77 years ago gave Canadas its own the anchors will become museum probably at the Mari time command military Muse Coetzee said the investigation will Deal with allegations made by the detainees parents support commit tee in a newsletter distributed at a world Council of churches youth Congress in Zimbabwe last the committee has publicized allegations by Black children who said that while in detention they were Given electric forced to perform prolonged exercises and in one Case forced to lick blood off a the committee estimates the government has detained More than including about since South Africa declared a state of emergency in june disputes figures the government disputes the Esti mates but refuses to give its own it has denied any systematic mistreatment of under South Africa apartheid Law and custom have established a racially segregated society in which the 24 million Blacks have no vote in National the five million Whites control the Economy and maintain separate schools and health an advertisement calling for the immediate and unconditional re lease of detainees appeared Friday in City a newspaper serving Blacks in the Johannesburg police Headquarters in Pretoria said the which the committee paid violated a state Femer gency censorship regulation ing reports about the release of a person who is the police said City press would free second set of pictures with this two pictures for the Price of one Wilk you Neil Roll Al color pm developed printed l soot cars plus replacement Rou of Colo film Onty u cell Mitiu tidy 12 locations in Winnipeg 88 sea Ruuk St 7758188 2091 ave 8898115 181q Row big he 4527842 243 9439573 805 Htow Iwiula Hwy 6612526 3340050 4895702 115 233 1803 263 9438190 48 Vij 2552956 be prosecuted because the and was published before the but a police statement said any further publication of such material could Lead to censor ship violation carries maximum 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