27 11, 2012

New planet found by C of C students- Charleston Post and Courier

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Professor Joe Carson likes to joke with his astrophysics class: Find a planet, you get an “A.” No planet, “F.” Seniors Thea Kozakis and Laura Stevens just scored the “A.” Analyzing photographic data from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, Kozakis noticed a giant light shining closer in to the massive star kappa Andromedae than she

27 11, 2012

Captured World: Rare Direct Image Reveals “Super-Jupiter” Orbiting a Massive Star- Scientific American

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Joe Carson, an astrophysicist at the College of Charleston and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and lead author of the paper describing the discovery, says that the most exciting part of the discovery is that κ Andromedae "is by far the most massive star where we see evidence of normal planet formation—the kind that

27 11, 2012

‘Super-Jupiter’ discovered around massive star – NASA News

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Kappa And b, the previously imaged planets around HR 8799 and Beta Pictoris, and the most massive planets discovered by non-imaging techniques likely all represent a class of object that formed in much the same way as lower-mass exoplanets," said lead researcher Joseph Carson, an astronomer at the College of Charleston, S.C., and the Max

27 11, 2012

Tim Scott carries burden of GOP- Politico

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College of Charleston history professor Bernard Powers said he is not surprised that Scott most likely will be the only black Republican in the House because there have been so few in recent decades. “This is, to me, reflective of the party’s constituency, racially,” he said, adding that was the Republican Party’s strategy since even

27 11, 2012

Black Hole’s Destruction Of Massive Super-Hot Gas Cloud Visualised- Huffington Post

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Exactly what that destruction will look like is still open to debate. Computational physicist Peter Anninos worked with Murray, both of AX division within the Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate, Chris Fragile, at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and his student, Julia Wilsonboth, to develop six simulations of the disaster. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/12/black-holes-destruction-g2-gas-cloud_n_2116036.html  

27 11, 2012

Colleges Extend Application Deadlines After Hurricane Sandy- US News and World Report

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The College of Charleston, for example, will accept E-mail requests for further extensions from prospective students who "live in a storm-impacted area and are unable to submit application materials by November 5 for weather-related reasons," according to the school's website. "We have deadlines, but we also need to exercise a degree of compassion for candidates,"