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SHSU Staff Lab Assistant At Planetarium Talks About Chile Trip

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SHSU Staff Lab Assistant At Planetarium Talks About Chile Trip

Staff lab assistant at SHSU’s Planetarium and Observatory, Mike Prokosch, recently joined eight other astronomy educators from across America to visit observatories in Chile, the astronomy capital of the world.

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Astronomers Discover a Superheated Star Factory in the Early Universe

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy using the ALMA telescope. The galaxy is glowing intensely in superheated cosmic dust while forming stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way.