Core-Collapse Supernovae are believed to be a great source for gravitational radiation. When a star explodes all information from its core carried by electromagnetic waves are lost. Gravitational Waves can go freely through the hot mantle and they can bring new unique information to our understanding of exploding stars.
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In the Southwest, the ancestral Puebloan people have a long history of observing the sky and recording their cosmology through petroglyphs and stories. Professor Bates has had the good fortune to research numerous ancestral sites and attempt to discern what the ancestral Puebloan people may have been observing and how they used the information they extracted from their observations.
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Dr. Kestay diagnosed the processes that keep Io geologically hyperactive lead us from the volcanoes on the surface, through the crust that thrusts up mountains taller than the Himalayas, into a hidden ocean of magma. These same processes operate in other, wetter, moons in our Solar System, potentially providing environments that are favorable for life.
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