The Perks of Being an Astrophysicist

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The Perks of Being an Astrophysicist One of the perks of being an astrophysicist is getting to a telescope. For the Dark Energy Survey, we use a telescope at the Observatory high in the mountains of. Famous name Place The elevation means there are far fewer than usual, so it s a(n) place to observe the night sky. We take pictures of millions of and floating out in space, which give us an idea of how the universe. To capture these images, we, past tense use a 570-megapixel camera, which is about the size of a. Compare that to the roughly 20-megapixel camera on the you probably have in your pocket right now! We ll use all of these images to better understand dark energy, a mysterious ending in -ing that is the universe apart faster and faster. Whoever figures that puzzle out will probably win a(n). award

How to Build a Physics Experiment Building your own neutrino experiment is easy. First assemble a team of. Then design a particle detector full of profession, plural, the latest technology in neutrinos, also known ending in -ing as particles. Fun fact: if a explodes somewhere in the Milky Way, your experiment should be able to see it! You ll want to build your detector underground, to block out all the coming from the atmosphere. Consider building it inside of distance Place a. Hire some to carefully the detector in its new home. Connect all the coming out of the detector to the data acquisition system, chill everything to precisely negative degrees Fahrenheit, and wait for the to roll in! Make sure to give your project a name, like the Grand Experiment.

Discovering the Final Quark Dr. was a very physicist. Her team of female friend s name, emotion graduate student(s) and Nobel Prize winner(s) had been searching for the quark, the final piece of the Standard Model puzzle, for what seemed like forever:. Dr. rubbed her together in anticipation. Other scientists had already five kinds, aka flavors, of quarks: the quark, the quark, the quark, the quark, and the quark. The results today would reveal whether they had succeeded at finding the most of the quarks. Hundreds of people had built a/n particle accelerator at the National Accelerator Laboratory in, and it had millions of particle collisions. Dr. and the team looked at the data and saw what they had hoped for: a! The final quark had been found! The team celebrated by a bottle of and having a toast: Hip, hip,! length of time name from 1st blank, past tense famous name place, past tense name from 1st blank ad exclamation ending in -ing liquid

Gifts from the Sun Did you know that billions of tiny are created in the core of the sun as a product of nuclear fusion every? They in all directions, including towards Earth, but are so that they pass right through matter even entire without ever being noticed. need to use extra- detectors to catch even a few. These detectors are often filled profession, plural with liquid. We want to learn as much as we can about their properties, such as how they are and how often they. This will help us understand how they with other in the Standard Model of and could even time interval explain the role they played in the of the entire. ending in -ing

Upgrading a Collider Early today, a group of at CERN s Control Center turned off the Collider. The collider was used profession, plural to discover the elusive boson. Over the past three years, proper collisions produced more than of to unit of measurement, plural ad be studied in the quest to understand the and that make up everything around us. CERN s accelerators will be stopped for about for major renovations and upgrades. For example, technicians will replace of the collider s, crucial components that accelerate and subatomic particles. They ll also install new, which will enable the collider to at higher energies than ever before! length of time