Faculty Profile – Dr. Grant Thompson Oystein Fjeldberg, Staff Writer Dr. Grant Thompson teaches the popular astronomy class at Wingate University, where students learn how to tell the time by the phase of the Moon, how stars move across the sky during the year, how our Solar System is held together, and why stars haveContinue reading “Students are encouraged to take Astronomy class offered next semester”
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Proxima B, Unknown Earth like Planet
Possibility of New Life Christina Kroeger, Staff Writer Just recently, there has been findings and proof of an Earth-like planet orbiting a star about 4.22 light-years away. Astronomers call this planet, Proxima B. Proxima B is measured to be one and a third times the size of earth and is surviving in a habitable zoneContinue reading “Proxima B, Unknown Earth like Planet”
Wingate Triangle 