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Associated Press B Associated Press "Despite playing no­ where near their best, the won their third Super Bowl in four seasons on January 18, beating Pittsburgh 27-17. And they did it behind the hero­ ics of cornerback , whose career has been spent in the shadow of glamour guys named Troy, Michael, Emmitt and Deion. "We did it! We did it! We did it!" exulted Barry Switzer. With this win, the Cow­ boys placed themselves in elite company. No team has won that The.first detailed image ofa star shows many Super Bowl titles in such a the red giant Betelgeuse, which has a short span. These Cowboys, ba­ single, gargantuan hot spot that may be 12,000 degrees and an atmosphere ex­ sically the same mix of stars and tending much farther into space than blue-collar workers who won one thought. Th e Hubble Space Tele­ twice under Jimmy Johnson, scope image of Betelgeuse, received in th e last week in January, gave for the went just as far with the oft­ first time details ofa star other than the maligned Barry Switzer. sun and suggests that it ,nay have dra­ matic physical dijferencesfroni the sun. Switzer had a trying two "We ha ve Looked into space and have seasons as Johnson's replace­ seen the face of a star," said Andrea ment. His every move was dis­ Dupree of Harvard-Smithsonian Cen­ ter for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mas­ sected and when he goofed, he sachusetts. "It is exciting!" Betel­ was vilified. geuse, 500 Light years from earth, is the Switzer, just like his out­ shoulder star in the constellation Orion, the Hunte r. It is the seventh­ going, often outrageous players, brightest star in the winter sky of the has earned the right to brag. northern hemisphere and appears to have a reddish tint to th e naked eye.

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