The analysis of the observations, penned in four papers in this week's issue of Nature, "proves that x-ray flashes and gamma ray bursts share the same origin," says astrophysicist Elena Pian of the University of Trieste, Italy, who co-authored two of the papers.
There were flashes of humour, and rays of hope.
"People end up buying themselves a present in a way that means something," said Alan Manevitz, a psychiatrist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center who has personally collected 25,000 comic books; baseballs autographed by Babe Ruth, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, and Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers ray guns.
Crystals were cryoprotected and flash frozen, and X-ray diffraction data were collected at 100 K on beam lines X10SA at the Swiss Light Source (SLS), on beam line 14.1 at the Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY), and at a Rigaku FRE Superbright home source.
And it flashes a ray of light at the end of Iraq's still dismally dark tunnel.Iraq is far less horrible than it was two years ago.
Banned items include Ebola, a virus that can be used for medical research as well as a biological weapon; nickel powder; radium; flash X-ray generators; and microwave antennas designed to accelerate ions.
The violence of the resulting explosion was measured using velocity pin arrays placed inside and outside of the metal confinement cylinders, flash x-rays, overpressure gauges, and fragment collection techniques.
Flashing rays, or F-rays introduced in Section 3, are intended to describe the reflections from fast moving objects like vehicles and are short in duration.
All of which means Warner could have a better sense of the buzz and reactions to Ezra Miller's Flash and Ray Fisher's Cyborg in Justice League by that time, and whether The Flash would benefit more or less from having a team-up.
Deejay Sean Perry looked like Pippi Longstocking, and Disco 2000's go-go dancers went for a "Charlie's Angels in Space" look, complete with flashing toy ray guns, skates covered in glitter and plenty of silver touches.
Until now, similar outbursts had only been observed as intense flashes of x-rays and gamma-rays.
