Foothill College's Student News Publication

The Foothill Script

Foothill College's Student News Publication

The Foothill Script

Foothill College's Student News Publication

The Foothill Script

Dr. Eliot Quataert of the University of California, Berkeley presented the 18th annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture.

A guide to gravity waves with Dr. Eliot Quataert

Clayton Nagle, Staff Writer
January 27, 2018

On Wednesday the 24th, Dr. Eliot Quataert of the University of California, Berkeley presented the 18th annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture in Foothill College’s very own Smithwick Theater.  Dr....

An artists concept of the 2004 occurrence in which a neutron star underwent a star quake causing it to flare brightly, temporarily blind all x-ray satellites in orbit. (NASA/Wikimedia Commons)

Brain Blast: When Jimmy Neutron Stars Collide

Rebekah Smith, Managing Editor
November 3, 2017

LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, in Livingston, Louisiana, made a splash in February of 2016 with its discovery that confirmed Einstein’s theoretical gravitational waves....

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