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...During the first six months of its lottery, Colorado arrested seven people who had tried to forge winning tickets, but it now boasts that last year's games were squeaky clean. "People get a thrill out of betting, and lotteries seem to serve that need," says Lieut. Alfred Cassinelli of the Washington, D.C., morals squad. "All you have to do is keep it honest...
...Cassinelli, working with John S. Mathis and Blair D. Savage, discovered R136A last summer using information collected by the International Ultra-Violet Explorer Satellite. The star is located 150,000 light years away inside the gaseous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. It is surrounded by ultra-violet rays which give the nebula its blue glow...
This "superstar" is believed to have the luminosity equivalent to 150 million suns. It burns hydrogen so fast that it emits as much energy in one second as the sun does in five years, Cassinelli said. He added that R136A blasts into space an equivalent of the earth's mass every day at a speed of 7,500,000 miles per hour...
...temperature of approximately 100,000 degrees Fahrenheit makes its surface ten times as hot as the sun, Cassinelli said...
...International satellite, launched jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Association and the European Space Agency last year, picked up R136A's ultra-violet spectrum. The fast wind blowing away from it "was incredibly more massive than the solar wind," Cassinelli said...