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A Funny Thing Happened While Waiting for the Next Supernova in M83
William Blair is an astrophysicist and research professor at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He penned this blog post to help explain the excitement -- and challenges -- involved with getting a handle on the mysterious ULX (ultraluminous X-ray source) he and his colleagues discovered in the spiral galaxy M83.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/node/372
