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Vol XXXIII No. 94

Wednesday, March 1, 2000

ND professor earns prestigious position

      Peter Garnavich, Notre Dame physics professor, is currently enjoying the professional privilege of his life as a member of the Supernova Intensive Survey team, a select group of astronomers who are using the Hubble Space Telescope to watch a celestial collision 169,000 light years away. In this never-before-seen occurrence, the debris from a 1987 supernova (an exploding star) will collide with the gas rings surrounding the site. "We are rarely able ... [more]
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