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Topic: Canary Islands
The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299. ![]() An artist’s concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which reacts by launching a relativistic jet. (Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA Researchers work on Fuel Additive that could reduce Jet Fuel VolatilityWritten by Elizabeth Landau
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech, have been working on additives that inhibit the formation of this highly flammable mist during collisions. These additives are based on long molecules called polymers. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope verifies nearest Planet outside our Solar SystemWritten by Felicia Chou
Dubbed HD 219134b, this exoplanet, which orbits too close to its star to sustain life, is a mere 21 light-years away. While the planet itself can’t be seen directly, even by telescopes, the star it orbits is visible to the naked eye in dark skies in the Cassiopeia constellation, near the North Star. ![]() This artist’s rendition shows one possible appearance for the planet HD 219134b, the nearest confirmed rocky exoplanet found to date outside our solar system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers Rocky Planet that baffles AstronomersWritten by Whitney Clavin
“We were very surprised when we realized what we had found,” said astronomer Xavier Dumusque of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the analysis using data originally collected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. ![]() An artist’s conception shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets. In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. Planet formation theorists are challenged to explain how such a massive world could have formed. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/David Aguilar) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
Clarksville’s Bashaara Graves among a pair of Lady Vols playing for USA Basketball
Rising University of Tennessee junior Ariel Massengale earned a spot on the USA World University Games Team, which will play July 8th through 15th in Kazan, Russia. Rising sophomore Bashaara Graves, meanwhile, heads to Panev?žys, Lithuania, for the FIBA U19 World Championship for Women on July 18th through 28th. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Sports | No Comments
Lady Govs golf to open season in JSU-hosted eventAPSU Sports: Women’s Golf
The tourney normally is played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Silver Lakes, AL, but that course is still recovering from damage incurred from April’s tornado. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Sports | No Comments
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