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Contest Prize Winner: Fast Radio Bursts: A Decades Long Puzzle

Abigail Serrano – Andover High School, MA, USA The First Burst When the first fast radio burst, or FRB, was found in 2007 by D.R. Lorimer...

Contest Prize Winner: The Potential of Time Travel Lies in Space

(Monica Tavarez Frias, Saint Patrick School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Introduction What if the key to time travel isn’t hidden within the depths of our...

Contest Prize Winner: Artificial Intelligences and Machines (AIs/AMs)as Catalysts for First Contact with Alien Societies

(Martina Guja Zagonel – Liceo Scientifico Bonaventura Cavalieri, Verbania, Italy) Introduction With recent advancements and ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's conceivable that in the...

Contest Prize Winner: Interlinked: The Mystery of Quantum Entanglement

(Sebastian Sousa, St. Patrick’s School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Introduction             Have you ever experienced an eerie coincidence? Thinking of someone just as they call...

Contest Prize Winner: The Solar System from the Perspective of Space Probes

(Milena Niemczyk, 1st Nicolaus Copernicus Secondary School, Bielsko-Biata, Poland) Introduction Our eyes have always been directed towards the night sky. The inventions of the telescope and then...

Contest Prize Winner: Should We Send Robots or Humans into Space?

(Marcus Mount, Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA, USA) When we think about it, space exploration is arguably humanity’s most exciting and monumental work. We owe...

Contest Prize Winner: The Sky Beneath

(Moneth Claire Corpuz, Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA, USA) “The sky is fake.”  Meina recalled the words of a delusional passerby near the Academy. She...

Multi-Spectral Imagery of the Multi-phase ISM in M33

We investigate star formation in the Sc(s) II-III galaxy M33 by analyzing eight prominent HII regions using multi-wavelength data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and optical imagery. Results indicate that dust emission is a compact tracer of high-mass star formation, while PAH and H-alpha emissions decline more slowly with galactocentric radius.

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Contest Prize Winner: Fast Radio Bursts: A Decades Long Puzzle

Abigail Serrano – Andover High School, MA, USA The First Burst When the first fast radio burst, or FRB, was found...

Contest Prize Winner: The Potential of Time Travel Lies in Space

(Monica Tavarez Frias, Saint Patrick School of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) Introduction What if the key to time travel isn’t hidden...

Contest Prize Winner: Artificial Intelligences and Machines (AIs/AMs)as Catalysts for First Contact with Alien Societies

(Martina Guja Zagonel – Liceo Scientifico Bonaventura Cavalieri, Verbania, Italy) Introduction With recent advancements and ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI),...

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