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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
May 22, 2008
A star trembled on the brink of eternity. Outwardly, all was serene, but its inside was falling into chaos.
Far away on the day of Jan. 9, Earth time, a satellite telescope by the name of Swift, which happened to be gazing at the star’s galaxy, a smudge of stars 88 million light-years....