Space
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9 celestial sights to see over the next few months
Fall is a great time for star gazing, amateur astronomer Paul Kinzer said on “The Larry Meiller Show.” Kinzer shared nine celestial sights to behold in the coming weeks and months.
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How eclipse chasing inspires generations of scientists
Speaking with “TTBOOK” in 2017, journalist David Baron describes how witnessing a total solar eclipse set him on a path to examine how eclipses have propelled many inquisitive minds to see more deeply into the universe.
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Wisconsin researchers prepare for ‘BEEclipse’ by recruiting beekeepers along path of totality
Entomologists and a beehive tech company hope to capture how honeybees react to the total solar eclipse on April 8.
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Sad tomatoes in space: Wisconsin scientists develop TASTIE experiment to grow plants without gravity
Scientists hope to help the tomatoes find happiness without gravity by setting the plants up with a fungus from the genus Trichoderma.
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Experts say only far northern Wisconsin has a chance to see the northern lights this week
Talk of the northern lights being visible this week has many Wisconsinites ready to look toward the night sky. But experts caution most of the state doesn’t have a strong […]
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UW-Madison IceCube researchers produce first neutrino image of Milky Way
New data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s IceCube neutrino detector has led to the first ever image of our Milky Way galaxy using the subatomic “ghost particles.” An international team […]
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Ahead of Wisconsin visit, Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to critiquing science in movies
Asked if scientifically baseless plots prevent him from enjoying a lot of movies, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson replied, “No.” “I just observe it. I don’t invest emotion in it,” […]
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Wisconsin researchers have tracked neutrinos to distant galaxy, supermassive black hole
For the first time ever, an international team of scientists has traced neutrinos coming from the galaxy NGC 1068 in the constellation Cetus. The “ghost particles” appear to be accelerated […]
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Part of latest NASA discovery, UW-Madison alum reflects on James Webb Telescope’s breakthrough
When Kenneth Sembach studied astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he had no idea what heights he would reach—and the role he would have in NASA’s latest groundbreaking discovery. As […]
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Big achievement in black hole imaging gets assist from UW scientists
If your to-do list feels daunting, imagine if there were 5 million tasks on it. That’s what it took to capture the first image of Sagittarius A* — a massive […]