Space

A turbulent flight to success: A tale of Northeastern’s very own aerospace club

Physics, Space / /

It began with two members and one big dream: create a club that allows students to apply their engineering knowledge from class by building drones, planes, and rockets from scratch. Meet Northeastern’s Aerospace Club, or AeroNU. With 200 members nearly a decade later, the Redshift team at AeroNU is quite literally reaching for the sky […]

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Glitches in stars

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Star-gazers are captivated by an astronomical phenomenon called a glitch. Glitches occur in neutron stars, which are remnants of a collapsed star and are the smallest stars in the universe. But don’t underestimate them: they are extremely dense, with just a teaspoon of their matter weighing around a hundred million tons on Earth! When neutron

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How physicists broke the Standard Model of Particle Physics: Understanding the groundbreaking spring 2021 results from CERN and Fermilab

Physics, Space / /

Just before midnight in late July 2013, onlookers began lining the side of an interstate right outside of Chicago — many pulling out their smartphones to film. They watched as the flashing police lights leading the procession silently illuminated the suburb. The sea of reds and blues slowly faded into a sweeping gold. Following the

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As Hubble falters, astrophysicists find hope in the telescope’s successor

Space, Technology / /

Late afternoon on Sunday, June 13, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center received an unlucky but increasingly familiar message: The Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode. The telescope’s primary computer halted, likely because of degrading hardware. NASA’s inability to send astronauts on a servicing mission, due to the Space Shuttle’s retirement, severely limited the Goddard team’s

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Sticking together for life (quite literally)!

Biology, Space / /

As the search for living entities in outer space continues, a team of researchers found that some bacteria may have the ability to survive amidst the harsh environment. Outer space is notorious for its inability to support living organisms. Extreme temperatures and low pressures prevent organisms from surviving. Additionally, ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun

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A sight to behold: Supernovae through the eyes of an artificial intelligence

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Only 0.1 percent. Without artificial intelligence (AI), cutting-edge astral observatories around the world may be able to comprehensively classify only 0.1 percent of the approximately 1 million supernovae observed yearly. Ashley Villar of Columbia University, along with many other experts, is aware of the limitations of data collection using human techniques. In response, these experts

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Terraforming Mars: The hard science & bizarre culture surrounding the sci-fi concept

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Elon Musk walks out to applause for his September 2015 interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” After exchanging pleasantries, Colbert asks Musk about his fascination with our closest solar neighbor: “You sincerely think that we should go to Mars…Why do we want to go to Mars? It’s uninhabitable.” “It is a fixer-upper of

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