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MAX POWER at Kennedy Space Center

Get ready for MAX POWER at Kennedy Space Center, Nov. 7–8! ✈️🚀 Explore air shows, technology demonstrations, spaceflight hardware, military aircraft, and behind-the-scenes access to America’s spaceport—all in one two-day celebration of aerospace innovation. #MAXPOWER #KennedySpaceCenter #Aerospace #SpaceExploration - MAX POWER is a two-day aerospace festival at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 7–8. - The event celebrates American innovation with immersive experiences for all ages. - Features include air shows, technology demonstrations, spaceflight hardware, military aircraft, and behind-the-scenes access to the spaceport. - It is organized in collaboration with Air Dot Show, UP Summit, Space Florida, Delaware North, and Purpose Entertainment, blending history, exploration, and cutting-edge aerospace.

Dwarf galaxies use 10-million-year quiet period to churn out stars

If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have bigger regions of star factories, with higher rates of star formation. Now, University of Michigan researchers have discovered the reason underlying this: These galaxies enjoy a 10-million-year delay in blowing out the gas cluttering up their environments. Star-forming regions are able to hang on to their gas and dust, allowing more stars to coalesce and evolve. In these relatively pristine dwarf galaxies, massive stars--stars about 20 to 200 times the mass of our sun--collapse into black holes instead of exploding as supernovae. But in more evolved, polluted galaxies, like our Milky Way, they are more likely to explode, thereby generating a collective superwind. Gas and dust get blasted out of the galaxy, and star formation quickly stops.   

from Space & Time News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/H4dftZc

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