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The Student News Site of Kinnelon High School

Colt Chronicle

The Student News Site of Kinnelon High School

Colt Chronicle

Nine years of cosmic microwave background radiation.

World Space Week: Day 6 – Cosmic Microwave Background

Camille Balo October 10, 2018

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing and most accepted cosmological model of our Universe. The theory describes that the Universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state and also provides an in-depth explanation...

Left panel: a large Lyman-alpha blob. Glowing hydrogen gas in the blob is shown by the yellow. A galaxy (white) is visible within the blob. The blue (x-ray) shows evidence for a growing supermassive black hole. Right panel: artist depiction of how a blob would look up close.

World Space Week: Day 5 – Himiko

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 8, 2018

Located 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth, Himiko, a giant gas cloud located in the constellation of Cetus, is considered to be one of the largest and most distant objects found in space. The cloud, spanning 55,000...

Model of Vostok 1 with its upper stage.

World Space Week: Day 4 – Humans in Space

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 7, 2018

From fruit flies in space rockets to human-crewed space vessels, hands-on space exploration in an environment that could quickly kill without the right gear has grown substantially. One of the biggest improvements pertaining to...

Early solar system artist concept.

World Space Week: Day 3 – The Formation of Our Solar System

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 6, 2018

Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Venus; all features that make up our solar system. But, how did our solar system, home to more than 550,000 asteroids, 181 moons, eight planets, and five dwarf planets, form? Well, the answer starts...

This illustration shows the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they might look as viewed from Earth using a fictional, incredibly powerful telescope. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

World Space Week: Day 2 – TRAPPIST-1

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2018

Life beyond our world has always been a controversial topic, with the lack of information regarding space, life, and the conditions in which living organisms can form, mainly because there are more than one heptillion observable...

Official NASA seal. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

The History and Future of NASA

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2018

With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 60th birthday just occurring on Oct. 1, NASA has had many historic discoveries, launches, and events. From the early failure of Vanguard to the future plans of...

Official logo for World Space Week. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia

World Space Week: Day 1 – Copernican Heliocentrism

Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2018

Oct. 4 marks the beginning of World Space Week, a United Nations-created event formed in 1999, that celebrates the contributions of space science and technology. Since then, it has become the largest public space event on Earth,...

SpaceX breaking ground at Vandenberg AFB SLC-4E in June 2011 for the Falcon Heavy launch pad

Falcon Heavy Is Ready For Lift Off

Camille Balo, School News/STEM Editor February 27, 2018

After years of working on Falcon Heavy, a rocket made by SpaceX, a leading company in space endeavors, another test flight of it finally takes off- with a success I might add. Falcon Heavy is capable of lifting “more than...

Changing the World One Girl At A Time

Changing the World One Girl At A Time

Nina Santy, Staff Reporter February 9, 2018

Technology dominates this world. It is present in everyone’s lives, and usually constantly present in her hands. The technology field has become a very popular career path; for men, at least. According to the U.S. Department...

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