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"We're always on the prowl."

"We're always on the prowl."

The Centreville Sentinel

"We're always on the prowl."

The Centreville Sentinel

Eliza Dean

Eliza Dean, Contributor

Eliza Dean is a senior at Centreville High School and is enjoying her first year on the Sentinel staff. She joined the Journalism program because she likes writing and wanted to diversify her portfolio as a writer. After school, Eliza likes to spend time reading, watching historical television, and spending time with her family. Though quiet by nature, Eliza is always willing to offer her help to her peers. In the future, she hopes to pursue some sort of biological science or a career path that allows her to work with different aspects of the natural world.

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Artist's rendition of the system of the star and the dormant black hole

Astronomers discover a stellar black hole 33 the mass of the Earth lying dormant near the Earth

Eliza Dean
May 31, 2024

April 18 2024   The European Space Agency reported finding - by chance - a stellar black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun, lying dormant in the constellation Aquila making it the second closest...

International Space Station

Discarded Space trash survives Atmospheric reentry and crashes through a Florida house. 

Eliza Dean
April 10, 2024

Trash discarded from the International Space Station tears through a man’s house in Florida, almost hitting his son and leaving him shaken. On March 8th, 2:43 PM in Naples, Florida, a piece of space...

Mammoths in the Tundra

First-ever Elephant stem cells created in the lab – Will Woolly Mammoths soon be walking the Earth again?

Eliza Dean
April 9, 2024

On March 6, Colossal Biosciences reported its monumental breakthrough: using Asian elephant stem cells, they had finally managed to create the notoriously hard to create elephant Induced Pluripotent Stem...

International Space Station

Discarded Space trash survives Atmospheric reentry and crashes through a Florida house

Eliza Dean
April 9, 2024

Trash discarded from the International Space Station tears through a man’s house in Florida, almost hitting his son and leaving him shaken. On March 8th, 2:43 PM in Naples, Florida, a piece of space...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the New Year's Eve solar flare. The subsets of extreme ultraviolet lights that mark extremely hot materials in flares, colorized in yellow and orange.

Massive Solar Flare Marks the End of 2023

Eliza Dean
January 23, 2024

The sun decided to end 2023 with a bang. As we on Earth were celebrating the arrival of 2024, the sun was having its own celebration. A gigantic solar flare erupted from the Sun’s Corona, the outermost...

On Mars, the Chinese rover Zhurong found intriguing polygon-like structures buried dozens of meters below its landing site in Utopia Planitia. The forms are reminiscent of similar polygonal patterns on Earth that are carved by ice.

Polygonal terrain discovered under Mars’ surface by the Chinese rover

Eliza Dean
January 2, 2024

November 23 2023, the Chinese National Space Administration reported that its Mars rover, Zhurong, had discovered polygonal terrain under the surface of the Red Planet.  On July 23 2020, China launched...

Declining life expectancy graph

Life Expectancy Is Declining for Men in the US

Eliza Dean
December 6, 2023

Since the pandemic, life expectancy for men in the U.S. has been declining, which has contributed to a six-year difference in life expectancy between men and women.  Women have been outliving men for...

A James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) long-wavelength image of the inner Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster

The James Webb Space Telescope found mysterious planet-like objects in the Orion Nebula. Where did they come from?

Eliza Dean
November 1, 2023

In October 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spotted curious planet-like objects in the Orion Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust and the largest star forming region closest to Earth.  Because...

Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth Asteroid that poses a potential threat to Earth in the future.

Asteroid Bennu might strike Earth. Will the rock sample prove useful in preventing a collision?

Eliza Dean
October 16, 2023

Scientists have predicted that Asteroid Bennu, which passes by Earth every six years in its orbit, has a 1 in 2700 chance of striking Earth in 2182.  Bennu has been on NASA’s radar for 25 years,...

stethoscope in nature

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Clinical Sector

Eliza Dean
September 27, 2023

The medical sector is the “the most carbon-intensive industry service sector in the industrialized world”, according to a research article by Health Affairs. Yet, we extend it a lot of grace since...

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