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Topic: Penn State University
Astronomers first recognized the GRB phenomenon 46 years ago. The blasts appear at random locations in the sky about once a day, on average. ![]() On Jan. 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory in the Canary Islands captured the highest-energy light every recorded from a gamma-ray burst. MAGIC began observing the fading burst just 50 seconds after it was detected thanks to positions provided by NASA’s Fermi and Swift spacecraft (top left and right, respectively, in this illustration). (NASA/Fermi and Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
APSU’s Zone 3 Fall 2017 Reading Series to feature Fiction, Poetry and Film
Steven Sherrill will travel to campus on September 19th, at 4:00pm to give a reading of his fiction.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovers three runaway Stars from same Multiple Star SystemThe Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
The stars were battling each other in a gravitational tussle, which ended with the system breaking apart and at least three stars being ejected in different directions. The speedy, wayward stars went unnoticed for hundreds of years until, over the past few decades, two of them were spotted in infrared and radio observations, which could penetrate the thick dust in the Orion Nebula. ![]() This three-frame illustration shows how a grouping of stars can break apart, flinging the members into space. Panel 1: members of a multiple-star system orbiting each other. Panel 2: two of the stars move closer together in their orbits. Panel 3: the closely orbiting stars eventually either merge or form a tight binary. This event releases enough gravitational energy to propel all of the stars in the system outward, as shown in the third panel. (NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI)) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
Austin Peay State University’s Phi Alpha Theta wins eighth Best Chapter Award
For the last seven years, the University’s Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society (PAT), which Uffelman advises, has been recognized each fall with the national Best Chapter Award, but September was drawing to a close without word on a possible eighth consecutive award. ![]() Austin Peay President Dr. Alisa White with the University’s Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society (PAT). «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Education | No Comments
APSU names Florida State College administrator Lynne Sponaugle Crosby as assistant VP of Academic Affairs
Brian Johnson, now president of Tuskegee University, previously served as assistant provost until August 2013, when he was named vice president of APSU’s Office of Strategic Planning and Institutional Research. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Education | No Comments
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory watches as Pulsar Punches Hole in Disk of GasWritten by Janet Anderson
The double star system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 – or B1259 for short – contains a star about 30 times as massive as the Sun and a pulsar, an ultra-dense neutron star left behind when an even more massive star underwent a supernova explosion. ![]() This trio of images contains evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory that a clump of stellar material has been jettisoned away from a double star system at incredibly high speeds. This system, known as PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 – or B1259 for short – is comprised of two objects in orbit around one another. The first is a star about 30 times as massive as the Sun that has a disk of material swirling around it. The other is a pulsar, an ultra-dense neutron star left behind when an even more massive star underwent a supernova explosion. (NASA/CXC/PSU/G.Pavlov et al) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA observatory, telescopes reveal new information on how Stars are FormedWritten by Whitney Clavin
The data show early notions of how star clusters are formed cannot be correct. The simplest idea is stars form into clusters when a giant cloud of gas and dust condenses. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) scans the sky for Planet X, but comes up emptyWritten by Whitney Clavin
Researchers previously had theorized about the existence of this large, but unseen celestial body, suspected to lie somewhere beyond the orbit of Pluto. In addition to “Planet X,” the body had garnered other nicknames, including “Nemesis” and “Tyche.” ![]() Data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has found no evidence for a hypothesized body sometimes referred to as “Planet X.” (Penn State University) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
Tennessee Titans on the road Sunday to face the Oakland RaidersTennessee Titans (4-6) vs. Oakland Raiders (4-6)Sunday, November 24th, 2013 | 3:05pm CST
The Titans have not played at Oakland since the 2004 season and have not won at O.co Coliseum since 2001. They have taken the two most recent battles in Tennessee (2007 and 2010), although the Raiders hold a 27-19 overall series lead, including playoffs. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
NASA Scientists explain how they Search for Habitable Planets
Astronomers still don’t know the answer, but they search for potentially habitable planets using a handful of criteria. Ideally, they want to find planets just like Earth, since we know without a doubt that life took root here. The hunt is on for planets about the size of Earth that orbit at just the right distance from their star – in a region termed the habitable zone. ![]() This artist’s concept shows a Super Venus planet on the left, and a Super Earth on the right. Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
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