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Hicks: Spinning White Dwarfs Making Waves

Hicks: Spinning White Dwarfs Making Waves

Two white dwarfs spinning around and around each other nearly 5,000 light years from Earth are making some waves, writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, in the March 1 Columbus Dispatch. Using the largest telescopes of the European Southern Observatory, they saw two white […]

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Hicks: Fossils Suggest Evidence of Supernova Explosion

Dr. Kenneth Hicks

“Imagine the following: A supernova explodes in the neighborhood of our solar system more than 2 million years ago, sending out a cloud of dust that eventually reaches Earth,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, in the July 14 Columbus Dispatch. Would there be evidence of this […]

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