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| This Marysville student is on a path to be a NASA researcher | Ollie Reisman, 17, is a senior at Marysville Arts and Technology High School, and will be a freshman at Western next fall. |
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| 草榴社区鈥檚 Melissa Rice, Students Attend NASA Workshop for Mars 2020 Mission | |||
| Western's Melissa Rice using Microsoft's new HoloLens headset for her research on Mars | |||
| Join Western鈥檚 Academy for Lifelong Learning for an Exploration of Mars in February | |||
| Inside the Search for Life on 鈥楴earby鈥 Proxima b | Aurorae aside, Proxima b’s severe space weather doesn’t create the prettiest of pictures, at least to human eyes. “We’ve seen 10 huge flares over the span of a few weeks time,” said Matthews. “We estimate the star has flares which we would consider major鈥 |
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| This Earth-like planet orbits the Sun鈥檚 nearest neighbor every 11 days | Jim Davenport, a postdoctoral fellow at Western Washington University, believes Proxima b鈥檚 biggest obstacle to Earth-like conditions is likely to be Proxima Centauri鈥檚 continual flares, which can be ten times more energetic than any ever observed on our Sun. Harsh x-rays and ultraviolet鈥 |
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| Earth-like planet discovered | BELLINGHAM 颅鈥 About four light years away from our planet sits Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system, and orbiting it is its just-discovered companion, a small Earth-like planet that, for now at least, holds the unassuming name of Proxima b. At this distance, Proxima b is鈥 |
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| SPIE Optics + Photonics technologies drive changes from daily life to our view of the universe | Astrophysics' new LIGO-enabled paradigm for exploring the universe, the latest findings of the Mars rovers, and bioinspired robotics are just a few topics in optical engineering to be featured at SPIE Optics + Photonics in August. More than 3,000 reports on the latest in research and鈥 |
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| Mars 2020 mission: Students survey rover landing sites | Meeting weekly this semester for the Astronomy 6500 seminar, Cornell undergraduate and graduate students are conducting research 鈥 with six other universities 鈥 to help NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory determine a rover landing site for the Mars 2020 mission. The course is a hybrid鈥 |
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| Former Sen. Harriet Spanel of Bellingham dies | Harriet Spanel, who served Whatcom County for more than two decades as a state legislator, has died. She was 77. 鈥淲e have lost an incredible leader and a dear friend,鈥 said Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-Orcas Island, who succeeded Spanel as senator representing the 40th District, in a press鈥 |