NASA releases stunning new image of the Milky Way galaxy s center
NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy s violent, super-energized âdowntown.â
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NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy s violent, super-energized âdowntown.â
It s a composite of hundreds of images taken by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory over the past two decades. Astronomer Daniel Wang of the University of Massachusetts Amherst said Friday he spent a year working on this while stuck at home during the pandemic.
The picture depicts billions of stars and countless black holes at the center, or heart, of the Milky Way. This busy, high-energy galactic center is 26,000 light years away. Launched in 1999, Chandra is in an extreme oval orbit around Earth.
UMass Amherst epidemiologist serves as a leading researcher in global collaboration
May 31, 2021 Cassandra Spracklen
AMHERST, Mass. – By ensuring ethnic diversity in a largescale genetic study, an international team of researchers, including a University of Massachusetts Amherst genetic epidemiologist, has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits.
The findings, published May 31 in Nature Genetics, broaden the understanding of the biological basis of type 2 diabetes and demonstrate that expanding research into different ancestries yields better results. Ultimately the goal is to improve patient care worldwide by identifying genetic targets to treat the chronic metabolic disorder. Type 2 diabetes affects and sometimes debilitates more than 460 million adults worldwide, according to the International Diabetes Federation. About 1.5 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes in 2019, the World Health Organization reports.
Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton has hosted the popular “Art in the Orchard” exhibit, the outdoor installation of standing art, five times in the last 10 years and is set to do so again beginning in August.But that’s not all. This month, the orchard.