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Oct 20th, 2023
A WKU team tested the SunSketcher app during an eclipse in Texas. The app captures Baily's Beads during eclipses, and users' images help analyze the Sun's shape for solar research and testing gravity theories.
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Sep 12th, 2023
Western Kentucky University's team is developing a free app for photographing the next total solar eclipse. The app, called "SunSketcher Eclipse Project," is designed to help people capture high-quality images of the eclipse.
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Mar 7th, 2023
Zac, a 3rd year Mechanical Engineering student at WKU, is part of a highly competitive NASA Pathways internship program in the Engineering Directorate at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Students in Dr. Gordon Emslie’s Physics 450 class witnessed the effects of the Coriolis force in a real-world environment.
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WKU has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to replace the telescope and control system at the Bell Observatory. The new instrument will be the largest optical telescope in Kentucky.
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Jan 8th, 2019
Check out the recent feature story on the WKU Hardin Planetarium on WNKY's SoKY's Choice.
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