This Year’s Winners Of Nobel Prize For Physics Includes A Woman! 🎉🎊

This year’s winners of Nobel Prize for Physics includes a woman! 🎉🎊

Her name is Donna Strickland. Together with Arthur Ashkin, and Gérard Mourou, they are awarded the Nobel Prize “for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” which help open up doors for potential research in biomedical physics.

[The announcement comes one day after a senior scientist with Cern, the academic home to a number of Nobel prize winners, was suspended for saying that physics was invented and built by men.

“We need to celebrate women physicists because we’re out there. I’m honored to be one of those women,” Strickland said in a news conference following the announcement in Stockholm.

Speaking about being the third woman to ever win the award, she said she thought there might have been more, adding: “Hopefully in time it will start to move forward at a faster rate.”]

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This Year’s Winners Of Nobel Prize For Physics Includes A Woman! 🎉🎊

Arizona: Student-Led CatSat Mission Selected for Flight by NASA

Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 An inflatable space antenna designed by University of Arizona students is one of 16 small research satellites from 10 states NASA has selected to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard space missions planned to launch in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The selections are part of the 10th round of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. CubeSats are a type of spacecraft called nanosatellites, often measurin Full article

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It’s only two things.

Imagine where you could be by this time next year. Now do the work

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October is the time of year for the Orionids Meteor Shower! Pictured here, over two dozen meteors were caught in successively added exposures last October in Inner Mongolia. The featured image shows multiple meteor streaks that can all be connected to a single small region on the sky called the radiant, here visible just above and to the left of the belt of Orion. The Orionids meteors started as sand sized bits expelled from Comet Halley during one of its trips to the inner Solar System. Comet Halley is actually responsible for two known meteor showers, the other known as the Eta Aquarids and visible every May.

Next month, the Leonids Meteor Shower from Comet Tempel-Tuttle should also result in some bright meteor streaks.

Image Credit & Copyright: Yin Hao

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Deep Space Missions

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OSIRIS-REx Arrived At Asteroid Bennu This Week! It Will Stay In Orbit To Do A Complete Survey Of The

OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu this week! It will stay in orbit to do a complete survey of the asteroid. But even cooler, it will get so close to the surface it will touch Bennu briefly and use a puff of hydrogen to dislodge surface material, that it will then collect. After that, OSIRIS-REx heads back to Earth to deliver the sample!

Here is a really cool video on how this little orbiter got to Bennu and detailing its mission.

https://youtu.be/NYGHbl_esgw

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