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Only a few months into its inaugural semester, the University of Colorado Boulder’s new space minor is already taking off. Launched this fall to capitalize on the university’s reputation as a top public university in space research, the minor’s
A team of astronomers, including one from 91ÊÓƵ, used the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to find the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.
A NASA mission to Mars led by 91ÊÓƵ has shown that water escaping from the planet's atmosphere is driven in large part by how close it is to the sun.
If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at 91ÊÓƵ.
91ÊÓƵ announced Tuesday the creation of a space minor, hoping to leverage its national-caliber program in aerospace engineering and space sciences into a minor degree that could benefit students whose majors might be in a wholly unrelated field.
Capitalizing on its reputation as a top public university in space research, the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a brand new Space Minor program for undergraduate students.