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White’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his agent, Bill Clegg, who did not immediately provide additional details., Armistead Maupin and others, White was among a generation of gay writers who in the 1970s became bards for a community no longer afraid to declare its existence. He was present at the

raids of 1969, when arrests at a club in Greenwich Village led to the birth of the modern gay movement, and for decades was a participant and observer through the tragedy of AIDS, the advance of gay rights and culture and the backlash of recent years.A resident of New York and Paris for much of his adult life, he was a novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, activist, teacher and memoirist. “A Boy’s Own Story” was a bestseller and classic coming-of-age novel that demonstrated gay literature’s commercial appeal. He wrote a prizewinning biography of playwright Jean Genet and books on Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud. He was a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where colleagues includedand his close friend,

. He was an encyclopedic reader who absorbed literature worldwide while returning yearly to such favorites as Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” and Henry Green’s “Nothing.”“Among gay writers of his generation, Edmund White has emerged as the most versatile man of letters,” cultural critic Morris Dickstein wrote in The New York Times in 1995. “A cosmopolitan writer with a deep sense of tradition, he has bridged the gap between gay subcultures and a broader literary audience.”

In early 1982, just as the public was learning about AIDS, White was among the founders of

, which advocated AIDS prevention and education. The author himself would learn that he was HIV-positive in 1985, and would remember friends afraid to be kissed by him, even on the cheek, and parents who didn’t want him to touch their babies.El descubrimiento, que se basa en datos sobre cómo se mueven los objetos celestiales y utiliza simulaciones, será difícil de confirmar con observaciones. Pero saber más sobre las órbitas de cometas distantes podría dar a los científicos algunas pistas, dijo Izidoro.

Mientras preparaban el espectáculo del planetario, los expertos del museo no esperaban encontrar una ventana a los mecanismos internos del universo. El espectáculo, narrado por el actor Pedro Pascal, presenta muchas escenas vívidas que pueden cautivar al público además de la Nube de Oort, dijo Jon Parker, del museo, incluyendo una fusión en curso de la mini galaxia de Sagitario con la Vía Láctea.No importa cuán impactantes y hermosas sean las visuales del espectáculo, el museo estaba comprometido a hacerlo científicamente preciso. Eso es lo que creó las condiciones perfectas para descubrir algo nuevo, dijo Carter Emmart, del museo.

“Nunca sabes lo que vas a encontrar”, dijo Emmart.El Departamento de Salud y Ciencia de Associated Press recibe apoyo del Grupo de Ciencia y Medios Educativos del Instituto Médico Howard Hughes y de la Fundación Robert Wood Johnson. AP es el único responsable de todo el contenido.