Minnesota state senator wants moratorium on egg oiling that keeps goslings from hatching Sen. Dave Senjem says Rochester s oiling of eggs to cut off oxygen is offensive. May 1, 2021 1:24pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Minnesota Sen. Dave Senjem wants to give Canada geese a fighting chance amid efforts to control their population in Rochester and the rest of the state.
The longtime Republican senator from Rochester recently attached an amendment to an omnibus bill that would temporarily halt the issuing of state permits allowing goose eggs to be oiled to prevent them from hatching or the use of other methods to destroy them. The yearlong moratorium would allow legislators to discuss whether those methods are acceptable.
NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets captures gamma-ray burst
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Zarrin Ahmed The exoplanet-hunting TESS telescope spotted a bright gamma-ray burst late last year, the first the satellite has detected. Photo by NASA
April 30 (UPI) For the first time, a NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets has captured a gamma-ray burst, researchers said Friday.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was on an exoplanet-hunting mission searching for planets that might be able to support life outside of our solar system when it spotted the burst.
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The satellite, which turns its attention to a new strip of the sky every month, happened to be looking at the same part of the sky the burst occurred.
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IMAGE: TESS full-frame image in the cadence just before the BAT trigger (left) and at the peak flux of the burst (center). The emergence of the afterglow is apparent in the. view more
Credit: The Astrophysical Journal
DALLAS (SMU) - NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program s TESS mission is no different. SMU astrophysicist and her team have discovered a particularly bright gamma-ray burst using a NASA telescope designed to find exoplanets - those occurring outside our solar system - particularly those that might be able to support life.
It s the first time a gamma-ray burst has been found this way.