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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin This would be a good video for "Today I found out" (I think). Here is the wiki page (yes I know wiki isn't a reliable resource however it is a good starting point).
5 giorni fa · When the U.S. Fusion Energy Outreach Team declared the second week of May as Fusion Energy Week, they were recognizing the May 10 birthday of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin—the British-born American astronomer who applied principles of quantum physics, chemistry, and astronomy to become the first to realize—at the age of 25—that ...
3 giorni fa · 5: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Photo Credit: pozdeevvs via stock.adobe.com. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin didn’t fit the mold of a typical 1920s woman. In 1925, she was pursuing her PhD and managed to figure out what stars are made of. In her thesis, Stella Atmospheres, she correctly hypothesized that stars are composed of helium and hydrogen.
5 giorni fa · DIII-D plans to test a series of different divertors for future fusion power plants, and first up is a new shape and volume rise (SVR) divertor. The SVR divertor will allow researchers to produce plasma shapes that weren’t possible with previous divertors. diii-d doe fusion fusion energy general atomics magnetic confinement fusion.
1 giorno fa · Notable astronomers Name Country Born Died Notable for Marc Aaronson United States 1950 1987 His work concentrated on three fields: the determination of the Hubble constant (H 0) using the Tully–Fisher relation, the study of carbon rich stars, and the velocity distribution of those stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Aaronson was one of the first astronomers to attempt to image dark matter ...
3 giorni fa · Andromeda Galaxy. A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy. Messier 32 is to the left of the galactic nucleus and Messier 110 is at the bottom right. The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224.
