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By The Washington Post / The Bulletin
September 5, 2011
Twenty-one million years ago in the Pinwheel Galaxy — an elegant, spiral-armed neighbor of our own Milky Way — an old, dim star had a very bad day. It exploded and began to blaze like a billion suns.
On Aug. 24, Peter Nugent had a very good day. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
