“As far as pulsars go, PSR B1509-58 appears young. Light from the supernova explosion that gave birth to it would have first reached Earth some 1,700 years ago. The magnetized, 20 kilometer-diameter neutron star spins 7 times per second…”
“Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)…”
The following images and text illustrate how two supermassive black holes merged to form a single black hole which was then ejected from its parent galaxy…
The Homewood Public Library is thrilled to announce our winners for October’s 2018 Teen 6 Word Story Contest. This contest was open to any 6th-12th grader in Jefferson County. We challenged our teens to write a story with just 6 words! Sounds easy, but it is a lot harder than you think! We received so…
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the…
On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express. Daring young men with colorful names…
