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Boat ramp, park to open in RH

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By S. Beckwith
| San Benito News Verified
By ARABELLA SERRATA editor@sbnewspaper.com RIO HONDO, TX—Local officials hope that a new park and boat ramp will fast become an area hotspot for residents and visitors alike. The City of Rio Hondo launched a soft opening for its latest attraction to much acclaim. On Dec. 31, the City announced that town leaders named the park Speckled Sea Trout Park after a local inquiry asking the public for potential names.
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Explore outer space at home with these 6 citizen science projects

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By Bob Hirshon, S. Beckwith
| Astronomy Magazine Verified
From studying light pollution to growing tomato seeds that have flown in orbit, these citizen science projects can help you and your kids enjoy the cosmos at home. By Bob Hirshon, Citizen Science Salon  | Published: Monday, November 2, 2020 As the days get shorter and the nights get longer, it's prime stargazing time.
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New Study Says Universe Expanding Faster And Is Younger

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By S. Beckwith
| KXJZ-FM (Sacramento, CA) Verified
Saturday, April 27, 2019 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink Seth Borenstein, Associated Press (AP) — The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that's sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of its most basic concepts. At issue is a number called theHubble constant,a calculation for how fast the universe is expanding.
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Hubble's Greatest Hits

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By D. Magee, J. S. Anderson, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, H. E. Bond, J. J. Hester, G. Illingworth, C. R. O'Dell, G. Fritz Benedict, Andrew Howell, Inger Jorgensen, David Chapell, Jeffery Kenney, Andrew Fruchter, H. Ford, M. Clampin., G. Hartig, M. Meixner, P. McCullough, A. Loll, S. Beckwith, M. J. Jee, Holland Ford, T. Sohn, N. Walborn
| National Geographic Verified
In April 2014, Hubble data was used to weigh the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe—catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915—finding it lives up to its nickname, El Gordo (Spanish for "the fat one"). By measuring how much the cluster's gravity warps images of galaxies in the distant background, astronomers calculated El Gordo's mass to be as much as three million billion times the mass of our sun—roughly 43 percent more massive than earlier estimates.
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