<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><h2 id="eds-modal-title" class="eds-text--truncate eds-text-color--ui-800 eds-text-bl--fixed eds-modal__title" data-spec="eds-modal__title" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px -0.25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 44px; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; width: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0.25px; color: rgb(57, 54, 79); caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79);"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-weight: normal;" size="4" class="">Hi all,</font></h2><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><font style="font-weight: normal;" class="">Another opportunity to involve the </font>kids…I hope you are finding this useful and can find time to share….<span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white;">we have to stay positive and always be thankful…</span> remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs & smiles... :-) :-) STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><h2 id="eds-modal-title" class="eds-text--truncate eds-text-color--ui-800 eds-text-bl--fixed eds-modal__title" data-spec="eds-modal__title" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px -0.25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 44px; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; width: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0.25px; color: rgb(57, 54, 79); caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79);"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 36px;" class=""><br class=""></font></h2><h2 id="eds-modal-title" class="eds-text--truncate eds-text-color--ui-800 eds-text-bl--fixed eds-modal__title" data-spec="eds-modal__title" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px -0.25px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 44px; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; width: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0.25px; color: rgb(57, 54, 79); caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79);"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 36px;" class="">NASA's Mission to Mars Student Challenge</font></h2><div class=""><div class="title" style="border-width: 0px 0px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: white; outline: 0px; font-size: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-left-radius: 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px; font-family: sans-serif;"><h1 style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: -15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-indent: 10px; position: relative; top: 8px; font-family: Quicksand, sans-serif; font-size: 25pt !important;" class="">Parents & Educators</h1></div><div class="menuFeatured" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 12px; position: relative; font-family: sans-serif;"><div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, rgb(247, 146, 30) 0%, rgb(239, 68, 53) 100%); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 10px; width: 773.078125px; border-top-left-radius: 15px; border-top-right-radius: 15px; border-bottom-right-radius: 15px; border-bottom-left-radius: 15px;" class=""><span class="standardFontSize" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;" class="">Mission To Mars Student Challenge:</span> Take part in a worldwide "teachable moment" and bring students along for the ride as NASA lands a rover on Mars February 18! <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/mission-to-mars-student-challenge/" target="_blank" style="vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black;" class="">Click here to join the adventure with students worldwide!</a></p></span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/mission-to-mars-student-challenge/" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class="">https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/mission-to-mars-student-challenge/</font></a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.03em; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">There's still time to join the adventure with </span><span class="header-count" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.03em; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">530,958</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.03em; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.03em; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">students worldwide!</span></div><div class=""><div class="body-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8rem; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">It's not too late to join the challenge and land with Perseverance on Feb. 18! Register today to receive a guided education plan with resources from NASA to engage students in the landing. 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"Mars" is the name of the Roman god of war, chosen for the planet because of its blood-red color. 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Clark / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)</div></div><div id="article-body" class="bodyCopy auto text-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative; word-break: break-word; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; height: auto;" class="">The mystery at the heart of an unexplained, bright point of gamma-ray light in the sky has been solved: There's a deadly spider star flaying a second, wimpier star to bits, sending out rapid-fire bursts of gamma radiation in the process</p><div id="ad-unit-1" class="ad-unit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; height: auto;" class="">"Black widows" and "redbacks" in astronomy, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/venemous-spider-hybrid-stars-discovered.html" data-url="https://www.livescience.com/venemous-spider-hybrid-stars-discovered.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(175, 195, 233); text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">as Live Science previously reported</u></a>, are species of neutron stars — the ultradense remnant cores of giant stars that exploded. Some neutron stars, called pulsars, rotate at regular intervals, flashing like lighthouses. The fastest-spinning among them are millisecond pulsars. When a millisecond pulsar is locked in a rare, tight orbit with a lightweight star, it slowly shreds its partner to bits with each rotation. These binary cannibals are known as black widow or redback stars. 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