Via our friends at Local 12,‚ Northern Kentucky University announced in October 2022 that NASA has chosen it to be one of five universities taking part in its new Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder on the International Space Station (TIGERISS) experiment. TIGERISS is part of the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program and aims to learn more about what kind of elements are produced by certain stellar processes, like supernovas, by measuring the amount of the heaviest elements in cosmic rays. READ MORE