shadowbat (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... az évtized végére azér már voltak városi szintű piro-előadások is, de ott meg ugye látta az ember a füstöt és a kezelőket is a bolt lapostetején. De ezek a hangok nekem még mindig az ágyúzást idézik, különösen amikor nem hallatszik a a petárda...
Rashid's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Artist's impression of an AM-CVn star system. (Credit: Tony Piro) An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.In a paper first published online Nov. 5 in the journal Science Express, University...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Now a landmark, World's Fair Pavilion gets preservation plan and paintBY DAILY NEWS WRITER Friday, November 6th 2009, 4:00 AM DelMundo for NewsPreservation advocates John Piro (r.) and Mitch Selverstein (l.) paint the wall of the 1964-5 World's Fair Pavilion in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. DelMundo for News"We're going over it, trying to make it as close as possible to the picture,"...
Universe Today (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new kind of supernova. Credit: Tony Piro Astronomers have identified a type of supernova that appears to be a type predicted in theory but never actually observed before. Two years ago Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara and his colleagues predicted a new type of supernova in distant galaxies which they dubbed the “.Ia” (point one a) mechanism, involving a helium detonation on a white dwarf...
