* Astronomy

A project being led by a NASA researcher in Huntsville aims to study samples of galactic material from far outside our solar system captured in cosmic rays that pass near Earth.
NASA announced Feb. 13 that the Orbiting Astrophysical Spectrometer In Space - OASIS - observatory is one of 19 ideas being selected for further study for the next generation of space observatories.
The principal investigator of the proposed spacecraft is James Adams, the cosmic ray team leader at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre. Adams, along with about two dozen other researchers at universities and other NASA centres, got $800,000 from the space agency to further study the idea this year.

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