by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 13, 2026 | Physics
The Second-Generation Planet: A World Built From a Dying Star A Cold Case in the Hubble Archive In January 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took an ultraviolet spectrum of a faint white dwarf cataloged as HS 0209+0832. Astronomers who analyzed it found carbon,...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 13, 2026 | Physics
The Second-Generation Planet: A World Built From a Dying Star A Cold Case in the Hubble Archive In January 1999 the Hubble Space Telescope took an ultraviolet spectrum of a faint white dwarf catalogued as HS 0209+0832. The astronomers who analyzed it found carbon,...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
Earth’s Interior: From Crust to a Wandering Core Oct 10, 2026 · @Thomas Abshier A Planet We Have Never Seen Inside Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 No one has ever seen beyond Earth’s outer skin. The deepest hole ever drilled reaches about 12...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
The Nitrogen Buckyball: The “Most Expensive Substance on Earth” and the Atomic Clock It Was Meant to Shrink Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 A Headline That Keeps Coming Back Every year or two, a story circulates under some version of the title...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
The Gyrotron: From Fusion Plasma to the Rock Beneath Our Feet A Machine With Two Callings Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 Few devices span two frontiers of energy research the way the gyrotron does. It was built to heat the plasma inside fusion reactors to...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics
A Type I Superconductor That Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry: YbSb₂ Explained Oct 9, 2026 · @Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Summary in plain language A team led by researchers from IISER Bhopal reports, in Physical Review Letters (2026), that the metal ytterbium diantimonide...
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