VALLEY CITY, N.D. It all started with some jelly Michael Kjelland ate more than 20 years ago. "I was up at my grandparents' place for breakfast and my grandma handed me a jar of jelly," he said. It was a jar of mulberry jelly that family frien.
Michael Kjelland, a professor at Mayville State University, and Jim Walla, a retired North Dakota State University research scientist, secured the patent on the prolific berry-producing tree in 2018. It’s been a yearslong project for the pair that is now bearing fruit.
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VIDEO: CosmoView Episode 20 for press release noirlab2015: Mapping Our Sun s Backyard
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Astronomers have curated the most complete list of nearby brown dwarfs to date thanks to discoveries made by thousands of volunteers participating in the Backyard Worlds citizen science project. The list and 3D map of 525 brown dwarfs including 38 reported for the first time incorporate observations from a host of astronomical instruments including several NOIRLab facilities. The results confirm that the Sun s neighborhood appears surprisingly diverse relative to other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy.