The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will soon install a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, widely regarded as the patroness of Brazil, thanks in part to the persistence of University Vice Provost of Global Strategies and Physics Professor Duilia de Mello.
Nicole Oliveira looks for asteroids as part of a NASA-affiliated programme, attending international seminars and meeting with her country's top space and science figures.
An eight-year-old Brazilian girl, Nicole Oliveira, has been named the youngest astronomer in the world after discovering 18 asteroids. Nicole is part of the Asteroid Hunters project, a citizen science program run by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration in partnership with the Ministry of Science in Brazil, and NASA. According to her mother, Zilma Janaca, Nicole asked […]