Any moment now, we’ll stumble across another Earth somewhere in our galaxy. That’s the opinion of Harry Shipman, UD Professor of Physics & Astronomy. Shipman, who kicked off the Harcourt “Ace” Vernon Lecture Series, recently stated that actually, 374 other planets have been discovered so far, and as we find more, some are bound to [...]
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The UD Alumni Relations Blog has always been told that we’re doomed to repeat history’s mistakes and while we tend to believe that, we’re not exactly concerned with the lessons that history teaches. We’re really concerned with the lessons that movies teach us (life is like a box of chocolates – idiots never know what [...]
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UD Professor Judi Provencal is leading a world-wide effort to track stars’ strange behavior. For most “stars’ strange behavior” conjures thoughts of Britney Spears shaving her head, Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch or anything involving Joaquin Phoenix, but for Provencal, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UD and director of the Delaware Asteroseismic [...]
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