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Gabby Beechert | Monday, April 4, 2022
University of Hawai’i astronomy professor Robert Jedicke discussed his involvement in the burgeoning asteroid mining industry during the fifth installment of the Ten Years Hence “Life Beyond Earth” lecture series Friday morning. “What we want to do is get water from the moon or from asteroids, use the water to fuel the spacecraft which we
Izzi Barrera | Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Despite it being the most important star in the galaxy, the astronomy community still has a lot to learn about the sun. As a complex ball of gas and plasma, it proves enigmatic. However, with discoveries made by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Notre Dame with funding from NASA, the world may reach a
Christopher Parker | Thursday, September 10, 2020
Every night in September of 2017, graduate student Michelle Berg sat on her laptop in Indiana controlling a telescope in West Virginia. Berg had trained for a week on-site to maneuver the massive single-dish Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest steerable radio telescope on the planet. “One of the days they were actually doing maintenance,
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, December 6, 2016
From the time that humans first gazed up into the night sky to the launch of the first artificial satellites to Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon to present day attempts for humans to reach Mars, the solar system has captivated the minds of those both young and old. Jonathan Crass, post-doctoral research associate,
Andrew Cameron | Tuesday, December 6, 2016
The story of the birth of Jesus is among the most well-known stories in the Bible, and details, such as the star over Bethlehem that led the Magi to Christ’s manger, are familiar to nearly everyone with some knowledge of Christianity. However, these details, such as whether the star of Bethlehem was even a star
Dan DeToro | Monday, September 22, 2014
Dr. Timothy C. Beers, Notre Dame Chair in Astrophysics, and an international team of astronomers have discovered a low-mass star in the Milky Way galaxy that could help explain the origin of elements in the universe. The star exhibits the peculiar chemical abundance ratios associated with the process of creating new atomic nuclei (nucleosynthesis) in a first-generation