Jun 3, 2021
Wareham High School senior Ava Sullivan was selected as the Wareham Historical Society’s class of 2021 scholarship award winner.
Sullivan will receive a $1,000 scholarship, according to Wareham Historical Society President Angela Dunham. In the fall, Sullivan plans to attend the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“Ava has been an outstanding student during this difficult and challenging year,” the Historical Society’s press release said. The release praised Sullivan’s participation in Key Club and National Honor Society and also highlighted her role as vice president of Global Education Club and class and Student Council treasurer.
“We wish Ava and the entire Wareham Class of 2021 all the best life has to offer,” the Wareham Historical Society said in its statement.
New NASA photo shows our galaxy’s ‘violent energy’
NASA has released an image detailing the never-before-seen “violent energy” at the center of our galaxy, created after two decades of research.
The stunning panorama was compiled using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
Images also documented an X-ray thread known as G0.17-0.41 that researchers say suggests a mechanism that could control the energy flow, and even the evolution of the Milky Way.
“The galaxy is like an ecosystem,” University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang explained in a statement. “We know the centers of galaxies are where the action is and play an enormous role in their evolution.”
UMass Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar is among the international team of scientists recently awarded the European Physical Society’s Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize. The team, known as the Borexino Collaboration, has spent more than a decade unlocking the secrets of how the sun produces its energy. The Cocconi prize goes to researchers who have made “an outstanding contribution to particle astrophysics and cosmology in the last fifteen years, in an experimental, theoretical or technological area.”
The Borexino Collaboration was awarded the Cocconi prize “for their ground-breaking observation of solar neutrinos from the proton-proton and carbon-nitrogen-oxygen chains that provided unique and comprehensive tests of the sun as a nuclear fusion engine.” These measurements were made possible by an instrument called the Borexino detector, which is buried half a mile beneath the Apennine Mountains in I