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Science 15 December 1995:
Vol. 270. no. 5243, pp. 1771 - 1772
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5243.1771
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Perspectives

Yasuo Fukui

Maser emission--the microwave equivalent of laser light--has been observed in interstellar molecules since 1965. Similar maser radiation should be expected from supernova shock waves, but this has been harder to observe. In his Perspective, Fukui discusses images presented in this issue by Yusef-Zadeh et al. (p. 1801) of maser emission from a supernova near the center of our galaxy. Such observations should permit a better understanding of radiative processes in gas under extreme conditions.

The author is in the Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. E-mail: fukui@a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp




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