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Carolyn Collins Petersen

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On Earth, work in space. Wear mask, wash hands, get shots. Watch launches! Science: it works! Joined July 2008. date below should match.
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Is a Sea Change Coming for New Horizons Heliospheric Science?

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By Carolyn Collins Petersen
| Universe Today Verified
If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you'll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate excellent science as it plows its way through the Kuiper Belt. It recently woke up from its latest hibernation period in good health and is transmitting data it gathered back to Earth.
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What Can Happen When a Rapidly Spinning Star Meets a Black Hole?

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By Carolyn Collins Petersen
| Universe Today Verified
Astrophysicists at Syracuse University in New York think they've found a hitherto-hidden explanation for strange activity during so-called repeating partial Tidal Disruption Events (rpTDEs). These are interactions between a supermassive black hole and a star that wanders too close for comfort, but not close enough to get swallowed up. The "repeating" part of the event occurs because the near-misses occur over and over again.
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Gardening the Moon's Cosmic Archives

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By Carolyn Collins Petersen
| Universe Today Verified
When a meteoroid hits the Moon's surface, it does more than just dig up a little dirt. It actually excavates a little bit of cosmic history that recorded a long-ago supernova explosion. Scientists at the University of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology have come up with a way to decode that history and learn something about such energetic events in the Universe. Emily Costello and her team wanted to find a way to let future lunar explorers pick good places for core samples on the Moon.
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