For years, Roane State Community College associate professor Ted Stryk has peered into powerful telescopes to explore the mysteries of outer space. It’s his hobby and his passion. On Jan. 19, 2017, the associate professor of philosophy and English was honored for his role in a NASA investigation of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons. (Photo courtesy Roane State)
By Bob Fowler, Roane State staff writer
For years, Roane State Community College associate professor Ted Stryk has peered into powerful telescopes to explore the mysteries of outer space.
It’s his hobby and his passion.
On January 19, the associate professor of philosophy and English was honored for his role in a NASA investigation of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons.
Stryk and about 200 other researchers received certificates of achievement for helping learn more about the solar system’s most distant planet, some 3 billion miles away. The ceremony was held at the applied physics lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. [Read more…]
