A tan and gray Netherlands dwarf rabbit perched primly on a heap of alfalfa. His name was Oakley, and this was his lucky day. It had been a journey. Oakley was in a Wayne County animal shelter before Lily-Anne Lachnor, the agriculture teacher at Marion Junior/Senior High School, took him in for the animal science […]
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Tiny 14-inch satellite studies ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets evaporating into space
While watching the atmosphere of seven “hot Jupiters” blow away, a suitcase-sized cubesat has found some surprising variations in how quickly the giant, bloated worlds are evaporating. CUTE, which stands for the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, was launched in September 2021 and orbits the Earth at an altitude of 525 kilometers (326 miles). It is […]