Ken Rines
With six stunning images of deep space, the James Webb Space Telescope has simultaneously given this world new screensavers and a treasure trove of new information about the universe.
The images are unprecedented due to the fact that the JWST collects infrared light, which travels in…
Like a snowball rolling downhill and getting larger and larger, galaxies in space form clusters that grow in size as they careen through the cosmos – and just how big they could grow and how long they’ll keep growing is the subject of a research team headed by Western Washington…
Faculty from Western Washington University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy will set up solar telescopes in Western’s Red Square PAC Plaza at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5, to safely observe the transit of Venus across the sun -- essentially a mini-eclipse -- and the public is…
A huge "structure" of satellite galaxies and star clusters has been found wheeling around the Milky Way, according to a new study.
The discovery surprised scientists, in part because the structure might spell trouble for theories of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible…
Western Washington University Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ken Rines has been awarded $35,000 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement for use into dark energy and galaxy cluster research.
Rines research involves observing galaxy clusters using optical…