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Photo courtesy of NASA Story by Emily Blalock / Contributing Writer  Jana Ruth Ford delivered a presentation entitled “Small Objects in the Solar System” in the Wiser-Patten Science Hall Friday night. The lecture was part of the Physics and Astronomy Department’s monthly Friday Night Star Parties. The first Friday of every month, a different professor …

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Photo and story by Sabrina Tyson / Contributing Writer  On Friday evening, Middle Tennessee State University held a First Friday Star Party on campus. The star parties take place the first Friday of every month during the fall and spring semester and include lectures on topics such as meteors, black holes and stars. The lectures …

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Photo by Eric Goodwin / Assistant News Editor Astronomy and Physics Professor Eric Klumpe provided a lecture on eclipses Friday night in the Wiser-Patten Science Hall as a part of MTSU’s “First Friday Star Party” series. The lecture, titled “Funky Fiziks in Film,” addressed movies involving eclipses and the upcoming solar eclipse that will occur on …

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Photo by Andrew Wigdor/ Assistant News Editor Story by Ryan Miller/ Contributing Writer After a week of cramming for midterms, MTSU’s Physics and Astronomy Department will start fall break with this month’s First-Friday Star Party for students, faculty and members of the community. This year’s educational series of First-Friday Star Parties began on the first Friday in September, …

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